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If anyone is still alive.

Biden and his goons are doing everything they can to escalate the war no matter the cost to Ukraine civilians and civilians everywhere because the sanctions are driving up prices on everything.

Buy a mirror, Joe!

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Speaking of war. We are in a war for the truth.

PayPal Blocks Multiple Alternative Media Figures Critical Of US Empire Narratives

In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official US empire narratives. These include journalist and speaker Caleb Maupin, and Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News.

Just the other day MintPress published an excellent article by MacLeod titled “An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm” documenting the many ways skepticism of the US government’s version of events in this war is being suppressed by Silicon Valley megacorporations, including financial censorship via the demonetization of YouTube videos that don’t regurgitate the imperial line on Ukraine.

Today, both MintPress and MacLeod have been banned from using the payment service that many online content creators have come to rely on to help crowdfund their work.

I asked MintPress News Executive Director Mnar Adley for comment on PayPal’s move. Here is her response in full:

“Paypal banning myself and MintPress is blatant censorship of dissenting journalists & outlets. For the past decade MintPress has been unapologetically working as a watchdog journalism outlet to expose the profiteers of the permanent war state from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Sudan to Apartheid Israel’s occupation of Palestine and Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen to regime change operations in Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela where US weapons have flooded these nations to plunge them into devastating civil wars.

“In the era of a declining US empire, censorship has become the last resort of an unpopular regime and its forever wars to make the truth disappear and critical thinking all but dead. With the war in Ukraine raging on, we’ve entered war time and Big Tech giants, including Paypal, are working hand in hand with the New Cold War architects themselves to sanction dissenting journalists. If you read the board of any of these tech giants from Google, Twitter, Facebook and Paypal, they read like a rogues’ gallery of war mongers and their agenda is clear: To control the free flow of information and target the bank accounts of anyone who dares question the official narrative of the Pentagon or State Department.

“It is outrageous to be told that tech giants, which are run by those who directly profit from the New Cold war including the crisis in Ukraine, could limit any journalist’s ability to fund their work. Can you imagine if this was the norm in Russia, China or Iran? Our media would be screaming about free speech and first amendment rights. Yet, when we do it’s ok because it’s under the guise of fighting ‘Russian propaganda’.

“We’re living in an intellectual No-Fly Zone where online censorship of dissenting journalism has become the new norm. The US sanctions regime that is trying to starve Russia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Iran and over 25% of the world’s population is now targeting its own citizens with its maximum pressure campaign so we are forced to toe the official government line in order to survive as a journalist in alternative media today.

“No matter the war waged against us, we refuse to be backed into a corner and bullied by tech giants who have a deep relationship with weapons manufacturers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and who work hand in hand with NATO that profit off the blood of millions of people around the world. The only way forward is for people to unite on a broader front of non-partisanship and fund our own media because there are more of us than there are of them.”

We are at a profoundly dangerous and frightening point in human history. The US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is escalating by the day and the drums of war are beating ever louder against China over the Solomon Islands and Taiwan. If you think censorship is bad now, wait until this global power grab really gets going.

Everyone’s Anti-War Until The War Propaganda Starts

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

Virtually everyone will tell you they love peace and hate war when asked; war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it. But when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to oppose war and push for peace, those who’d previously proclaimed themselves “anti-war” are on the other side screaming for more weapons to be poured into a proxy war that their government deliberately provoked.

This is because the theory of being anti-war is very different from the practice. In theory people are just opposed to the idea of exploding other people for no good reason. In practice they’re always hit with a very intense barrage of media messaging giving them what look like very good reasons why those people need exploding.

Before the Ukraine war I would’ve told you it’s impossible for me to despise shitlibs any more than I already do and impossible for me to have less respect for their foam-brained worldview. But I would have been wrong. Very, very wrong.

An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm

Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” This content, it went on to say, “includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim-blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.”

This builds on a similar message Google’s subsidiary YouTube released last month, stating, “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.” YouTube went on to say that it had already permanently banned more than a thousand channels and 15,000 videos on these grounds.

It’s incredible how fast things are moving since Russia started its special military operation at the end of February, but everything that is happening now was set in motion after HerHeinous lost to the game show host Donald Trump and started lying about why she did. She also blamed his win on Russia to get the media to stop talking about her private email server that should have seen her charged under the espionage act because she broke the law and lots of countries got access to her classified emails. Just the fact that they were found on Anthony Weiner's laptop should have brought charges for both her and her BFF Huma Abedin. The content too should have gotten lots of ink, but the media stenographers weren’t interested in them.

So here we are living in Orwell’s fictional world. What I find most amazing is how many people are supporting everything that’s happening.

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@snoopydawg

Even the worst Hollywood script might be less artificial and repulsive.

I'd like to know how life is beautiful when your fellow humans are subjected to war, and how inflaming it is needed.

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@janis b

I asked if he had any concerns for the civilians left in the war zones or if he was even aware of them. The replies to his tweet are nauseating. Shitlibs have made him their hero.

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@snoopydawg

That's the thing, most people including 'stars' take little or no responsibility for their drivel.

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How many of us found ourselves here because we didn't follow the script at DK?
That was just the begining.
I had no idea it was going to get this bad so quickly. The intense flak only means we are certainly over the target, for sure.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

@earthling1

for this great statement!

The intense flak only means we are certainly over the target, for sure.

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@earthling1

We were warned about everything that is happening now at lightening speed our whole lives and yet now that it’s here people aren’t horrified by it, but are embracing it. Soon we will go from those horrible Trump supporters that were targeting Asians to treating them just like shitlibs have been treating Russians for the last 5 years. Xi will become Hitler because people will be told he is.

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snoop
keep it going

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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. . .
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...to be the sheeple they want us to be.

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We're too stupid to evaluate evidence and think for ourselves. Big brother will do that for us, and you will consume what you are force fed to accept. So much for the 1st amendment.

Musk buying Twitter has caused this over reaction in a last ditch effort to control the narrative.

Timely topic SD.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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...so much of the official propaganda is just pure predictable pablum that anyone could say, so why does ANYBODY take a word of it seriously?!? Who listens to speeches that the motherfuckers reading them didn't even write?

For all that any of it bears substance, they might as well all be reading from their grandmothers' recipe books like Strom Thurmond used to - as a matter of fact, that would be an improvement, now wouldn't it?

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat

Who listens to speeches that the motherfuckers reading them didn't even write?

A few folks took a gander at the dreck written on DK. Wonder over there and you will see who is buying into this.

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as Russian disinformation don’t you know? Good lord I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake them the hell up or if they are so far gone that they even can. Remember folks…censorship is good because it will never affect them. Oh wait. I seem to remember a few bitching about YouTube pulling their videos because they were full of hate. Whaaa!

But if you’re feeling down and need a good laugh you can read this take on Russia and your lol will be overflowing.

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@snoopydawg
It's painful to find oneself alive among the perfectly Finished Products.

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Well, I never thought I would have occasion to say something nice about Cori Bush, but she, AOC, Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were among the brave and principled few (eight in all) to vote against H.R. 6930: Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act the other day - authorizing the seizure of yet more Russian assets and their sale to benefit Ukraine.

Oh, and who were the other four, you ask? David Cawthorne (NC-11), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14), Thomas Massie (KY-4) and Chip Roy (TX-21). (two of whom have been targeted by Our Revolution in lawsuits attempting to prevent them from running for re-election for allegedly supporting 'insurrection'...)

So, good for all of them, but what the hell about the rest of the duopoly?

The Donald seems to be headed off the reservation again on this one - perhaps it is sinking in that the same players that were involved in installing the Nazis and corrupt oligarchs in the US-backed Ukraine coup of 2014 were there again in their attempts (utilizing many of the same tactics) to terminate his presidency (Meet Norm Eisen Revolver News Sept. 9, 2020)? And/or real concern for the suffering of the people on the ground in continuing a pointless conflict? Who knows. Still...

Article from American Greatness by Paul Bradford

Too Many Republicans Want Endless War In Ukraine

Donald Trump’s calls for peace are at odds with most of the GOP. But a forever war in Ukraine benefits no one.

Former President Donald Trump issued a plea for peace last week. “It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement,” Trump said in a statement on the war in Ukraine.

“If they don’t do it soon, there will be nothing left but death, destruction, and carnage,” he added. “This is a war that never should have happened, but it did. The solution can never be as good as it would have been before the shooting started, but there is a solution, and it should be figured out now—not later—when everyone will be DEAD!”

rest here

Of course the problem is that for those whose goal is to weaken Russia at whatever cost and for those who profit from continuation of the conflict it *does* make sense and fits perfectly with their agenda.

BTW - I wonder what sort of sanctions Google is planning against the numerous witnesses from Mariupol interviewed by Patrick Lancaster asserting

claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.

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Speaking of sanctions - and how they are destined to end badly for the US and others imposing them - the following interview breaks it down very clearly:

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