A quote attributed to George Orwell states, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” It appears that quote was considerably prescient as Big Tech and the U.S. intelligence apparatus collaborate to retain their narrative.
Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter has been suspended from Twitter for questioning the transparently sketchy circumstances around Bucha, Ukraine.
Regardless of your position on the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict, the larger concern is the manipulation of information in an increasingly totalitarian era. The entire premise of democracy, speech and open debate is being undermined by the collaboration of tech platforms and the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
In this era of new “democratic norms”, trust in the institutions of government has collapsed. As social media platforms increasingly align their efforts with those collapsing institutions, the battle for your mind carries deadly consequences. Think, while it is still permitted.
Twitter keeps deleting folks, all that they will have is
one big Echo Chamber……or perhaps it already is.
The issue isn’t really about Twitter, that’s tangential.
The primary issue is how the totality of all information about Ukraine is being controlled. That should be the most alarming part.
Keep in mind this so-called “modern Churchill”, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has dissolved all political parties, banned all media except officially sanctioned state media, and openly is twisting the truth in order to hide that he does not control the actions taking place within Ukraine.
I would also point out (NOT DEFENDING THIS POINT TO BE CLEAR), that russia has a solid one way propaganda machine effort going on as well.
in a war, there are no truth tellors.
none…it is hell.
you find some truths, but even with the best efforts, the details that matter get smeared.
“we” cannot help ourselves to choose sides is one reason for this phenomenon.
the other is simply that information and facts in a war are never clear or clean.
it is a hell this war..and all other like it.
the best one can expect is that diplomatic negotiations can happen sooner than later. And that is where the efforts in discovering a greater truth lies. to end a war, is to find a truth.
That’s the problem. When Big Tech and media only filter out one side of a propaganda machine, they are creating weighted propaganda.
The information war is at the heart of the issue.
However, that said, we have a solid track record of the motives and intents behind the control operators. They are always on the wrong side of truth. Therefore, if Big Tech, IC and Media are all aligned to control information, it is a safe bet to say the truth is actually on the other side.
I would be extra careful assuming your last sentence applies even as a propositional bet.
It may be the case in most instances, but there is definitely plenty of examples that russian propaganda (and ccp for that matter) is just as powerful as the west in their own “right”. we know this is also true.
To choose sides, one has to discriminate. But this is different. We are in fact dealing with two sets (at least) of complete liars.
we are faced (as all wars present themselves) with deciding who is lying the least. And who is more authentic than the other.
At this point, I too lean toward your positions…but with great hesitation given the stakes AND THE PLAYERS INVOLVED.
both have proven with long history to distort the facts to achieve their own brand of truth.
jmho. And thank you Sundance for your continued excellent and rare insights into this conflict. It is very important work that you are doing and it matters.
God Bless America
I know that the Ukrainian government has murdered over 16,000 ethnic Russians over the past 8 years in an ongoing war against their own citizens. I know evil incarnate Soros, Biden, Bush, the US Senate, the UK Government, WEF, the EU leadership, etc. etc. are supporting Zelensky.
That’s all I need to know.
I do not contest these facts. At all.
my point here, to be clear, is that it is a fool’s errand to choose sides (USG vs RUS).
How many civilians died as a direct result of USG Militarism in Iraq, Kosovo before that, Vietnam before that, Afghanistan, Syria, others? covert wars in south america?
If we objectively evaluate on the basis of moral responsibility to refrain from killing civilians as a code of warfare, the USG has proven time and time again it is not above doing it.
the NATURE of war is neither honorable or decent. The killing of civilians is a loathesome cowardly immoral act.
I can’t possibly condemn russia for its atrocities without also condemning USG and its outrageously unlawful excercise of uncontrolled merciless acts of terror.
What has been lost on this nation is a sense of legitimacy. Faith that it will act according to proper excercise of controlled military power and only when absolutely necessary in the defense of the country and you and me. Records prove this has not been the case for decades.
I am no fan of Russia. I do not support, condone and in any way give putin-russia a pass on whataboutisms.
But I find it exceedingly hypocritical to engage any discussion about war crimes and not include the acts of terror from the USG!
The fact is, the best possible moral solution in this conflict is that the US stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. if NATO counties want to contribute, that is on them. “we” have no moral standing to participate in this conflict. None.
This is not a contradition to my view about the global energy markets crisis. That can be solved tomorrrow. And again, we find that the USG has again INVENTED another excuse to wage war, a proxy as they say, by simply refusing to do what is best for America.
WE GOT SOLD OUT. And NOW, we are closer to the nuclear clock clicking that 12 hundred now than ever before.
When this is “over” we will doing it all over again with ccp.
Sadly I trust RT as a news source more than I trust American media. They have proven they are state controlled over and over. Not one OUNCE of honest journalism among them.
These are the guys that were censoring during covid and likely also involved here, there, and everywhere…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-shadowy-trusted-news-initiative/5752930
“In July 2019, before the pandemic, the UK and Canadian governments hosted the FCO Global Conference on Media Freedom,[v] where then BBC Director-General Tony Hall announced:
“Last month I convened, behind closed doors, a Trusted News Summit at the BBC, which brought together global tech platforms and publishers. The goal was to arrive at a practical set of actions we can take together, right now, to tackle the rise of misinformation and bias….I’m determined that we use that [BBC] unique reach and trusted voice to lead the way – to create a global alliance for integrity in news. We’re ready to do even more to help promote freedom and democracy worldwide.”[vi]
The initial Trusted News partners in attendance were the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Facebook, Financial Times, First Draft, Google, The Hindu, and The Wall Street Journal.
This was the embryonic start of a soon-to-become global media-wide Early Warning System that would rapidly alert members to “disinformation which threatens human life or disrupts democracy during elections.”[vii]
Where did the idea come from?
The BBC had earlier responded[viii] to a call for evidence from the House of Lords’ Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technology, citing in its first footnote a June 3, 2019 BBC blog entitled “Tackling Misinformation.”[ix]
Due to the track record of the last two decades of the media and government lying incessantly to the American people, I’d have to side with Russia as being much more truthful. Just in the recent conflict, Ukraine has had some giant whoppers. I can’t think of one example of the Russians making up stories from whole cloth like the Ukrainians have done. They aren’t great at propaganda. The West has fine tuned it into an artform. Especially after they kneecapped Trump’s presidency and eventually overthrew him. When the person elected to high office is not allowed to implement his own policies, you no longer have a Democratic Republic. So now I question all the BS I’ve been told over the decades about America’s ‘enemies’.
Ditto here for having a reliable and important go to source for credible information.
Truth means different things to different people and different CLASSES of people, sadly. You’re right when you say we’re dealing with several sets of complete liars. And democraps have their own completely skewed “truth”.
That’s why we’re in trouble, because no one can believe anyone no matter what they say. I do believe this was the point of the biden administration’s portended “confusion”.
In confusion there is profit . . .
All I know is, there are a lot of questions about the events in Bucha. The Russians have a timeline of those events that raise a lot of questions, and none of them are being answered by Ukraine. Nor is Russia getting a hearing at the UN. At this point I agree with Sundance, the onus is on Ukraine to clear up these questions. The fact that they refuse to, continue to promote their lies, and big tech are enforcing the narrative looks very suspicious.
What I think…about Regitigers comment.
Russia has NO media that is friendly toward them.
So, saying, ‘Russia is spewing propaganda’ makes no sense.
Sundance,
It looks to me as if there ARE no “good guys” in the Russia-Ukraine fight. It is just a choice between the lesser of two evils, and even THAT choice is one we do not HAVE to make.
Diplomatic negotiations have been stopped by the Biden cabal. Ukraine and Russia are not allowed to negotiate anything as the One World Government apparatus wants to destroy Russia by bogging them down in years of conflict with Ukraine. Russia has been a very very bad boy – they simply refuse to join the pervert Globalists in their quest to control everything and everyone – so must be destroyed.
Hardly anyone knows how to question or think critically anymore. They’ve all been dumbed down by their Smart Phones and inferior education – which is why it’s so easy to have them believe the crap they’re fed daily. The USA went from having one of the smartest populations a few decades ago, to teaching them how to tuck their genitals as a priority.
I do not identify with “the masses” and I dare say few treepers here do.
I could provide a list of complete lies that russia media has invented WELL BEFORE and continues to spew about this conflict. As well, I can list a compendium of outright lies from the former and current UKR media as well. And OF COURSE, I could list a entire library of deceitful contradictory easy to falsify misinformation campaigns by this and former administrations.
When one is faced with this level of war crafted deception strategies ….it becomes essential to realize there are no greater truths among complete liars…only degrees.
But on the matter of proving actual war crimes and who is responsible, specifically that. You would find equally the same weight of “evidence” from either party at direct odds in both evidence, and witness.
Therein lies the great division between the manufactured ‘art’ of war crafted propaganda and where the truth actually exists.
I do not know the truth.
What I DO KNOW, is that Ukraine did not invade Russia. And that matters.
What I DO KNOW is that russia has a long history of using complete and utter bullshit to assert miliitarism.
I can ALSO say the very exact same thing about USG and it’s foreign policy.
From my view, we are watching the inevitable outcome of two illegitimate and corrupt central governments competing for the best set of lies.
when terms of negotiations are settled and this conflict is over, we will pick it back up again soon enough. it’s a feature of war mongering military and police states to perform these deceptions…not a bug.
q: does anyone really truly believe that vladimir putin was elected by the people in russia?
q2: does anyone have any doubt that a high number of dissents and political adversaries happened to die in a very public way ?
we are dealing with a very dangerous russia. And we are dealing with a very dangerous USG.
the two are now at 11:59:59 on the nuclear clock. The entire world shudders.
built on lies.
If Russia paid for gain of function research and “oops” covid; and then you saw Russia had 28 biological research labs in Canada, I suspect you would invade Canada. Then carefully remove the threat, not with “shock and awe” as we did in Baghdad but slowly, methodically, with a giant convoy outside Kiev but not assaulting the city. This speaks volumes. Putin is no better than BHO ( our dictator on chief) but he is fighting the globalists to protect his country. So I hope he kicks their ass.
America is the culprit. The US govt, EU and the Maidan invaded Russia.
Russia invades nobody.
What does Russia do?
Clean the US mess…first in Syria and now in Ukraine.
Russia did not mandate mrna vaccines for its military, did it?
Agreeing wholeheartedly with both Sundance’s and regitiger’s approaches – information is key, and understanding that information from both sides may be entirely fake, still truth will find a way to get exposed –
and this is helpful for staying grounded by not “believing any sides” including this Ukraine thing, remembering full well that Afghanistan would never have been a thing if Russia had not first invaded it with their version of regime change deluxe –
and here we are again where it invades Ukraine. Am still amazed that people in our own government, from politicians to military have not shown any signs of changing their approaches to these Russian invitations to war. It shows that axiom is still true – militaries always plan for the next war by playing with the rules of the previous war.
Coming here to the Treehouse is the best breath of fresh air to get grounded in reality to start and end each day, plus we get to see what our own military/industrial/media complex is up to in their attempts to control all information, weeks, sometimes months ahead of anyone else.
Have embraced what one commenter said a while back, I am free to go about daily life with the understanding that if I see any nuclear clouds I will know that our government has gone too far. Until then, living my best life still rules!
They won’t allow their children to be adopted out of the country – that really infuriated some people!
American Indian tribes won’t allow their children to be adopted by white people any more either.
In a war between two dictators, nobody wins. This is just like North and SouthVietnam or the civil war in Syria. Let them kill each other and make a giant world wide refugee camp out of what is left.
Syria was not a civil war it was an invasion by Sunni terrorists supplied and backed by us because we wanted to control gas lines.
They were not equal sides. One side took Yazidi children and raped them dozens of times a day to the point when one got a cell phone she called for someone to bomb where they were held because she couldn’t take the torture anymore.
One side genocided Christians and crucified them in the streets – the other side protected Christians.
Comparing ISIS to the legitimate leader of Syria is ridiculous. The entire Syrian war was our doing.
The Syrian catastrophe was made in USA.
We armed the rebels and ISIS to topple Assad.
Syria was the 3rd country hit by Obama’s Arab Spring
Recall watching HR Clinton declaring that there was going to be “regime change” and thinking — how is the Syrian regime even remotely our business? another murder and maiming spree like Iraq? Ugh
It would appear that Russia is not actively engaging in the ‘information war’ at this point. That seems to be taken up by Ukraine and the west.
That is absolutely not accurate. Russia has always fashioned a very deceptive propaganda war against the US and it’s adversaries.
If you are looking at US domestic news, well of course you might not notice.
I recommend that you project your radar to domestic media within russia.
You’ll find the information warfare is in full gallop mode and obviously in direction from the kremlin.
It’s not hard to do. Plenty of software out there to translate.
it’s will blow your hair back and give you information that the US media does not cover.
why: because they are lazy and consumed with getting points supporting this embecile and his globalists handlers.
All major countries fashion a ‘deceptive propaganda war’ in other countries….Russia is no exception. However, I would certainly enjoy some citation as to the domestic media that you find within Russia. Are you specifically talking about the Ukraine situation? Just generally? Some citations to your post would be appreciated…..
And information war or not, the operative word here is NAZI, isn’t it?
may I offer this advice: choosing between which countries lies the best is a devil’s bargain. Either way, you get screwed.
just saying.
So they do, but the propaganda machine in the West has been the source who has affected me. They lied to me about Covid and they lied to me about an election. They lied to me about riots and they lied to me Russiagate, Ukraine, etc etc. In fact they have worn out their welcome so much I will believe the propaganda coming out of Russia even if its lies. Sorry but my give a damn is busted. Our media and most of our politicians are more of a danger to us than is Putin and/or Xi.
My enemy of my enemy is my friend. And that’s where all of you should be now. Question is have you been lied to enough? I for one have.
Amen exactly, it’s easy for me to see that our biggest enemy is our own government, media and big Tech for starters.
That’s all that matters to me and no it’s not hard for me to choose a side.
Totally agree with you! We can no longer trust our Government, MSM, and the EU as well as the UN! The quick joining of all the governments and mainstream media about bad Russia showed the propaganda was one-sided against Russia causing me to do more digging into the truth. Once I got the background regarding how NATO infringed on Russia, I knew the correct side to support was the Russian side, which was not a popular move among friends and contacts. Then the info about the Biolabs in Ukraine and Taiwan and all over the world that the US has funded and or run came out and that enforced my siding with Russia.
Remember, the US developed the covid virus and the covid death vaccine with large pharmaceutical companies to reduce the world’s population for the Great Reset and has continually lied to us! So I strongly support Russia getting rid of these BioLabs! I think Putin is a hero for drawing attention to the US involvement in BioLabs all over the world and taking action on them!
This Covid vaccine will be the gift that keeps on giving because well over a year ago, I had been publishing how the vaccine can be shed after a recent vaccination onto unvaccinated people nearby. This always got deleted by FB/Twitter. I again posted a recent article about this vaccine shedding in January after my husband died after getting sick 2 weeks earlier the day after helping his older woman mall employee with her work. She had just been vaccinated (bolstered) with Pfizer the day prior and was not sick. He came home sick from work the day after and died within 2 weeks with extreme headaches and some typical covid symptoms like fever, cough, weakness, etc. Took a week to even be able to get a Covid test in NJ because of all the urging Biden Fauci did to everyone about going to get tested, so you can celebrate the Holidays with your family! My posting about my unvaccinated spouse dying from the shed covid vaccine from a recently boostered person was removed by Facebook and Twitter within hours of each other (collusion much)?
Now the recent drop of more Pfizer documents from their vaccine trials revealed that they knew the vaccination could transfer to unvaccinated people and cause them harm, and they cited how pregnant women lost their babies when near recently vaccinated people in their study.
I have had enough and will support anyone, including Russia and Putin that are on the opposite side of our lying Government, MSM, etc. especially when Russia is trying to remove these BioLabs that should not be in existence in the first place!
I had enough during Trump’s Presidency with all the evil actions against him. Now I really have had enough with the death of my young 57-year-old husband that had never been sick in the 22 years we had been together, even after he took care of me during my extreme Covid sickness in December 2019. Sorry, my trust will never return to these governments, agencies, and MSM and I will support their condemned people and countries now!
https://tapnewswire.com/2022/04/pfizer-documents-claiming-that-inhalation-and-skin-contact-with-vaccinated-people-may-transfer-whats-in-the-vaccine-to-the-unvaccinated-population/
What if “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is really just controlled opposition? What then? What if Russia’s move into Ukraine is just more WEF globalist maneuvering to give the EU and USA cover for creating their big totalitarian move? A giant kabuki theater for the masses?
All one has to do is look to the behavior of Western Civ media and the politicians to see where Putin stands. That tells you all you need to know. Putin is definitely not a WEF shill; not on this. There’s far too much outrage.
Would Russia have tied the ruble to gold if he was on board with the WEC et Al? Nope.
“‘In war, truth is the first casualty.’ This quote has been attributed to Aeschylus, a 6th BCE Greek tragedian noted for his ‘copious use of imagery, mythic allusion, grand language, wordplay and riddles.’
“It is only fitting, therefore, that the man who first gave word to the concept of modern-day war-time propaganda would see his quote come to life in the present-day Ukraine.”
– Scott Ritter April 4, 2022
But … the Russian media is the only media defending Russia.
A double minded man is useless.
and without contemplation, aimless
Exactly 💯 💯
“Keep in mind this so-called “modern Churchill”,
Volodymyr ZelenskyyJustin Trudeau, has dissolved all political parties, banned all media except officially sanctioned state media, and openly is twisting the truth in order to hide that he does not control the actions taking place within Ukraine.”Not just happening in Ukraine – look north of the 49th and the patriot Truckers.
The one thing that I cannot get past is that one side of this issue are Nazis. And that’s the side that the west is supporting. It boggles the mind.
Read the history of both the Ford Motor Company and International Business Machines in the 1940s, as well as certain New York law firms.
Western support of National Socialism isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that anyone would bother to follow that discredited ideology today, 75+ years after it failed miserably in every goal it sought.
It works for the wealthy-destroy the middle class by transferring its wealth to them. Leave the slaves to do the dirty work….
And we are the white supremes for visiting sites like this.
What I do not get 2 presidents current Zelenskyi and Pornoschenko(spell) are both jewish and they would rather sided with Banderistas/nazis(Azov/Aidar)-rather than work out with russians speaking citizens and give them autonomy ..they rather choose war and destruction of glorious UKR…….
Power, money and corruption supersedes religious beliefs, apparently.
@insifad….you make an excellent point. But it shouldn’t surprise anyone here. Yet it still does including me. When Putin said initially he was removing Nazis I thought he was trolling the West. But nope that’s exactly what he’s doing. Clown World has no ups or downs. This is being done to us on purpose (psychologically). Stressing an animal enough and they lash out. Humans are no different. We are being programmed to crash into the mountain side (most of us). But the ones who don’t are going to be hell to deal with. Some of them will be monsters.
Never believe any group or person(s) has full control. Some of us made that mistake with PDT. It’s ok was a learning lesson. We are not in some pre programmed computer application. We are much more analogous with Jurassic Park. These fruit cakes that think they can manipulate everything/everyone are going to learn a painful lesson. They will learn life finds a way and cannot be controlled to the degree they have chosen.
Come hell or high water Light=Truth=God=M Nature =Natural Order finds a way. And they will win in the end if that means we are all destroyed.
Zelenskyy is the modern “WARD Churchill”!
churchill did not outlaw 11 opposition parties,press & TV/RADIO stations…Zelenskyi did !!!!!!
Ward Churchill is a Marxist professor who was at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. I think he was forced out after being caught lying about being Native American.
Ward Churchill and Liz Warren … fraternal twins of different mothers.
https://studentsforacademicfreedom.org/replies-to-critics/ward-churchill-firing-long-overdue/
Ward Churchill is explained in the link I provided. Ward was also a plagiarist and he claimed he was a paratrooper and a long range reconnaissance specialist in Vietnam. He was neither. He drove a truck and was a movie projectionist. I couldn’t find confirmation of his service in Vietnam or any denials. I’m relatively certain he served in the US Army. It is very hard to find any truthful information about Ward.
Preach it brother! Zeleskyy don’t. They want the money. They have been 30 years free of Russia. How come they don’t have planes, tanks, etc? Things to ponder.
And they DEMAND we GIVE them weapons. No offer to pay, no pleas or thank you, either. I wonder if this is because the Biden’s, many members of Congress et al, have been compromised and Zelensky knows it and therefore never says please. The threat is implicit?
I know for some reason I have been uninterested in this war or whatever it is because I knew the Bidens have been making money from Ukraine for a long time so I just assume it’s something that will benefit them and their evil plots. Our military, our country our people are just expendable tools.
Nothing to ponder there. When Ukraine was free of the USSR they had no money to fund any army, navy etc. Ukraine is an exceedingly poor country. They grifted to get the money-they sold out their country so the elites could have wealth. Sound familiar?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the deep state tries to prop up Zelensky as the puppet leader of the New World Order! Such a fake movie in progress!
Gee, why didn’t Hannity mention any of these egregious points to Sean Penn yesterday.
If Hannity wasn’t such a one track mind on the Ukraine and had mentioned them to Penn, there might have been a brutal on air fight that would surpass the hoopla of the Oscar slap.
Like two weeks to “flatten the curve”, it took two weeks for the real world to see the real Zelenskyy.
‘Two weeks’ seems to be somewhat important within the news and politics world.
In this current environment of Big Tech carrying water for the corrupt deep state, just assume everything they try to censor is over the target and factual.
That is exactly what I figure.
A friend who grew up in Communist Hungary told me this was how they figured out what was actually true.
True in every Communist occupied country. People figure things out quickly.
sadly half of US population is still def and blind …….
As they have been conditioned to be.
Some can never figure things out.
There you go!!
I guess now we know how Elon really feels about open debate and free speech.
Elon is a board member, not the president. Even if he is going to have outsize influence, it’s still going to be a fight for him. He is taking on the Swamp
True, he’s not the president or chairman of the board; however, it will matter how many votes he can accumulate by proxy.
The first thing Musk should do is get the Board to fire the WOG CEO who repaced Jack Dorsey and has repeatedly done videos in which he says Twitter does not care about the Constitution or the 1st Amendment and they will only publish content they think is appropriate. Then get the Board to demand a new mission statement for Twitter that meets with their approval and give them two weeks to do it. Then fire all the Department heads that led them into the woke swamp they find themselves in.
Not many newby board members can walk in the door with the Starlink satellite system in place and operational. I suspect the Swampies are measuring him up very closely, which is exactly what he would expect.
non-consequentially, elon has advocated the implementation of the “edit” button on twitter. it was in fact his first best legitimate effort into this foray.
for those that do not understand the value of an edit button on twitter, I highly recommend that you do the research and realize how this operates to offer balance and health to an otherwise broken format.
at to note: almost immediately after elon made this direct suggestion ON TWITTER, twitter released to every outlet in rapid fashion “oh, we’ve been working on that for two years”.
yeah, right!
this is about twisting the truth and dismissing elon’s input as “old news”, and that there is some technical reasons why they have never implemented “edit”.
we KNOW otherwise. Elon certainly does as well.
Elon is humiliating twitter executives left and right and will continue to do so, until he flushes them all right out in the open. He is a very smart person. He is pushing the embeciles to out themselves.
shareholders are noticing.
Give it time. Elon has to build more momentum.
I predict “edit button” gets implemented soon.
I also predict we will see a large exodus of twitter executives and also the front man too. They have failed to produce growth for investors. Elon can produce growth with his sensible and rational and fair and open ideas that will allow not just more people to join twitter but KEY PEOPLE who were axed from twitter AND THE MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS who left as well.
Elon knows what he is doing.
in a way, twitter has made it very easy for elon. They have made so many grand mistakes, and all of these mistakes can be corrected very simply.
Once his style of business is accepted and the bottom line starts improving and frauds depart the twitter arena, I predict that many people banned permanently or temporarily will be allowed back on the platform.
the answer to the debate about free speech
IS
MORE SPEECH.
“allowed back”
Really?
it’s a private company. It’s not the USG and free speech constitutional matter.
It IS important that these private companies apply their speech policies equally to everyone. That’s my bitch.
I used “allowed back” because it really does belong in that description.
Twitter has to make a decision. They can lift the permanent block or not.
It’s their choose. Period.
Just as it is the reserved and direct responsibility (and no one else) that CTH website ban certain people for speech they spew here.
And again I will emphasize we must tread carefully on the matter of S230. You give this to congress to square out and we are all in trouble.
It’s not a private company. They work closely with the executive branch of the US to implement propaganda policies. Section 230 anyone?
I have never used Twitler one of my Born Days.
President Trump at his peak had 100 Million Followers on his twitter feed.
That’s why it matters.
I also do not have any interest in twitter and likely never will. It’s a time suck I can avoid. Got better things to do with my time and not get locked up on every cat video and twerking movement.
But that platform IS enormously powerful as President Trump demonstrated.
In no small way, twitter was a means for President Trump to rally support and gain interest in his views and help people motivate and remain connected toward the issues of our times.
Elon is now in a position to not simply restore that power but also to make it better in ways that the left radical progressives cannot control.
We will see how he manages to make it happen.
My only desire is that twitter apply it’s speech policies equally.
Then it might actually be AMERICAN..and not a commie piece of shiiite.
“failed to produce growth for investors”
I went back and looked at the Twitter share price again since I did not look over how they have been doing over time.
Their high over a 5 year timeframe was $77.06 per share in February 2021. It dropped to a low of $33.00 per share in March 2022. Musk started buying on January 31 up until April 1 paying between $32.80 and $40.30 per share.
It closed today at $50.76. He will make billions himself off of any improvements that increases growth for investors.
Elon didn’t get rich by making bad investment decisions. I’m sure he had this figured out before he did this.
Twitter would probably be a good stock to invest in now.
It would have been on April 3rd before his stock purchase became public.
JacktheRipper!
Yes! Exactly!! People need to wake up about Elon.
wanna count how many trump haters are out there too?
when you find great success and you do not confine yourself to right think and speech, you get enemies aplenty,
it’s the crazy world we live in.
don’t blame elon…blame the embeciles who spend their time complaining and not actually getting after it and making something of their own lives.
Way to completely misconstrue what was said by JacktheRipper. Transhumanism is evil and so is everyone associated with its development and implementation. Your comment above casts a great deal of suspicion toward your previous comments in this thread.
It would have been better if it was someone other than this guy who is casting shade on the war hype.
I know very little of Ritters work except what he’s written during Ukraine.
I will investigate, but right now he is writing about all the rings we talk about here.
https://www.sott.net/article/466314-The-truth-about-Bucha-is-out-there-but-perhaps-too-inconvenient-to-be-discovered
Ritter from 2 days ago
Ritter was the UN weapons inspector who told the W Bush team that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and they would not find any. W and company sought to destroy his reputation. Now almost twenty years later, countless lives lost and damage to the Middle East, who was right?
Yup, I remember all of that- he said there were no WMDs and then they tried to destroy his reputation. If you get in the way of the $$$$/agenda, TPTB will do everything they can to ruin your life.
Really? This guy told the truth about Iraq.
Sorry Lulu, Joe is right.
I, along with several other Gulf War veterans had dinner one night with Ritter a number of years ago after he was gone from UNSCOM. I still have his autographed book.
I say this to explain that I have followed what he has done or written over a number of years.
He said Albright and Clinton would not back the inspectors conducting no-notice inspections in Iraq, which was his contention for the inspections failing. UNSCOM found evidence of tons of chemical precursors and biological growth media being brought into the country, but Iraq could not prove what happened to it. His wiki page entry even states there was a lack of support for their inspections, and also has interesting quotes from Biden when he was a Senator.
Many other chemical or biological agents/weapons were found by UNSCOM and destroyed. It was not until 1996 that Iraq even admitted to having a biological weapon program, and they only admitted it after a defector provided the proof. The “Oil-for-food” fiasco meant UNSCOM had even less support for finding anything bad in Iraq.
It was shocking to see his stance on Iraq change after the 2003 invasion. What he was claiming then was completely opposite of what he had said a few years earlier, and what his own UNSCOM team reports said. It was reported his changing tune was from taking $400,000 from an Iraqi-American businessman. The source reporting the payment is below.
Since the 2003 invasion, I saw he was mostly writing on left-wing sites pushing the anti-war narrative or other leftist views. I haven’t followed much of his writing in the past 10 years, mostly because of his conviction for pulling a Toobin on an undercover officer posing as a 16 year old girl. This was his second arrest involving activity online with what he thought were underage girls.
I take anything he says or writes now with a huge grain of salt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Scott-Ritter-paroled-in-online-sex-case-5936227.php
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/09/what-turned-the-hawkish-iraq-weapons-inspector-into-a-dove.html
LOL, never seen you here before and you link to some “stellar” sources. Go away.
Then you have missed a number of comments SJ. You can freely choose what to believe. Or not.
Thank you for this. Was the defector you mentioned General Sada (author of Saddam’s Secrets). If not, do you place much credence in Sada’s statements about WMD materials having been flown out to Syria?
I don’t recall the name of the defector, but I do recall he was a General Officer in Saddam’s military.
The documentation proving the biological program was stored at his farm in Iraq and was turned over to UNSCOM.
If I am remembering correctly, he was lured back to Iraq by Saddam and eventually executed.
Edited to add: I don’t know what to believe about his WMD’s going to Syria. There were certainly planes flying there, but there has been no definitive reporting on what they carried. Neither side really wanted to know.
This site says this name was: Lieutenant General Hussein Kamael. Now that I see his name, I recall the spelling to be Kamel.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/848341/posts
“A month later, Lieutenant General Hussein Kamael, a son-in-law of Saddam, and the man who had run Iraq’s bio-weapons program defects to Jordan. Assuming he is about to spill his guts to the U.N. (incorrectly it turns out), Iraqi officials claim they have “discovered” a new cache of documents on a chicken-farm owned by Kamel. It detailed the weaponization of thousands of liters of Anthrax, Botulinum toxin, and Aflatoxin for use with Scud warheads, aerial bombs and aircraft.”
Your comment is quite interesting. Ritter talks about the standard operating procedure of the FBI and others to destroy people who refuse to go along with the lies and deception and propaganda. Attempting to set Ritter up as a pedo sounds right up their ally.
“Since the 2003 invasion, I saw he was mostly writing on left-wing sites pushing the anti-war narrative or other leftist views. ”
What other leftist views are you talking about? Also, it would stand to reason that once he saw the REAL reasons for most of these wars and knew about the propaganda he would be anti-war.
At this point I only believe everything opposite the the MSM / Big Tech / Liberals / RINO’s / Government says.
Yea, when you know the lies, the truther is easier to see.
Same here.
that is a rational and practical stance to navigate this hot mess.
no doubt about it.
we have certainly seen the media complicit in at least 5 world changing deceptions so far in the last 5 years.
with trillions of dollars of energy market making power hanging in the balance, be there no doubts these corruptors have and will continue to expend a massive amount of energy narrating deception about this conflict and the details thereof.
USAFirst! I read about a new term we should all be using from now on.
We no longer say RINO….we call them what they truly are….TRANSPUBLICANS!
While they may “identify” as republicans, they’re actually leftist through and through!
Twitter’s so called Twitter rules are a pathetic joke. The Truth, is never abuse nor harassment. Twitter the truth will set you free.
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Free from what? Sin and Evil
This is interesting because,
I find Ritter very insightful.
He has had a presence here, with readers posting links to him
during this war in Ukraine.
Ritter is highly quoted and linked on Moon of Alabama,
which is mainly an anti-imperialism site. MOA will rail on anything that
is wrong with American foreign policy and its western satraps.
It often leans classically left, with Marxist tones.
Yet, I recently read comments/posts on DU (I know) that excoriate Ritter as appealing to RWNJs.
Sheet is crazy how modern American Dems think someone AGAINST neo conservative war mongering
is a RWNJ.
we are totally off the rails as a political culture in the US, and I blame the intelligence ABCs.
What is DU? Thanks.
Another excellent example of manipulation, both of news and emotion.
I was firmly against Ritter during the American invasion but changed my tune upon reading more than listening.
And we are all supposed to believe the BS from the CIA controlled media,
because the pentagon can’t confirm,
and sources who challenge the CIA led media are gagged by big tech
Same crap, different crisis.
I havent believed much of anything from either the CIA or MSM for decades.
They don’t call the MSM “The Mockingbird Media” for nothing! Long term relationship with the CIA going back to just after the end of WWII. The American public has been played for many decades.
Yes, Sundance exactly. This should be the lead story on every media and news site before any other. It provides the context that there is no definitive ruling as of now what happened and who is accountable for what we are shown in the streets of Bucha.
The level of propaganda opportunities provided by the centralized MSM, big tech, big corporations and big government is beyond imagination. They know that we know that they are forcing propaganda on people. They do not care, they feel they control all the levers of power. They see communist China lockdown cities of 20 million and control a billion people and say we can do that. They only half pretend they are all about democracy.
Should consider ourselves fortunate they are not unpersoning anyone… yet.
Still, the attempt to squash this information will be counterproductive. The Streisand effect anyone?
Alex Jones
A look at the reporting of the ‘ start ‘ of the conflict : were we lied to about when it began ?
” The new world order that is being prepared under the pretext of war in Ukraine ”
Lew Rockwell.com – 3-30-2022
Bucha Proof of a Ukrainian PogromWas it Russia?
Ukrainians are reporting that over 300 bodies were found after the Russian army left Bucha, opposite the town of Irpin on the western outskirts of Kiev.
News of the Bucha massacre is leading the news cycle now and Zelensky is attempting to use it as a tool to bring western militaries into the conflict and widen the war.
Joe Biden is calling Putin a war criminal and the Bucha massacre even though his own Pentagon won’t confirm or deny events. All the information about it is coming from Zelensky.
It begs the question why would the Russian army commit this atrocity on civilians wearing neutral white armbands after delivering large quantities of humanitarian aid?
Ukraine shelled Bucha before reestablishing a presence in Bucha after the Russian army left. On March 31st, this was the Ukrainian headline.
The New York Times just headlined a satellite image claiming bodies have littered the streets of Bucha for weeks. The condition of the bodies in the photos released by Ukraine says otherwise. The decomposition over a couple of weeks would have been pronounced. Bucha leaders had access to the internet all this time as evidenced by a town councilwoman’s post below.
With over 300 murdered civilians scattered all over the streets, why didn’t that make the news until now? On March 31st, shouldn’t that have been the lead story the Mayor of Bucha was telling?
https://georgeeliason.substack.com/p/bucha-proof-of-a-ukrainian-pogrom?s=r
At some point war crimes are commited on all sides. Its usually the winners of wars that decide what are war crimes, and who gets to be charged as war criminals and suffer the consequences.
Exactly – hundreds of thousands if not millions of women and girls were raped by allied troops in West Germany when Germany fell. We never hear about that because then we’d have to wonder just what grandpa and the rest of the “greatest generation” did.
Germans in my family said the rapes were in Eastern Germany, and Eastern Europe (including Hungary and Austria)
Happened there too. That was the Russian Army. Our history doesn’t hide that.
Going to call BS on this.
I’m calling bullshit on your numbers. The Allies reportedly had approx 90 divisions enter Germany. At a maximum of 15,000 per division if at full strength, that’s at least 1 rape per man, at least. I don’t think so.
While I have no doubt many rapes occurred, millions is not likely the answer.
How anyone in their right mind could support any war with Russia with the grossly substandard leadership this nation has defies belief. Despite this these media propagandists withhold all information that doesn’t support the agenda and report fabricated lies to further the cause. Zelensky isfar from a hero and I pray JoeBama and NATO don’t provoke a war.
BREAKING: Victor Davis Hanson explains how the US used propaganda in WW2 to blame war crimes on the enemy that had been conducted by their allies
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2022/04/05/breaking-victor-davis-hanson-explains-how-the-us-used-propaganda-in-ww2-to-blame-war-crimes-on-the-enemy-that-had-been-conducted-by-their-allies/
I watched Scott Ritter on The Duran channel on YT 2 days ago. That was a fantastic 2 hour video. It is still up but I bet it won’t be for long. They are also on Rumble. The more they keep insisting on only one narrative allowed (just like with covid), the more I do not believe their global outrage.
It’s still up–I’m about half way through. Gerald Celente also interviewed Scott recently and it’s posted on his y/t channel.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/scott-ritter-caught-in-another-sex-sting
Reminds me of Sheryl Atkinson and the three letter agencies breaking into her computer……
That he was not charged…end of story.
Julian Assange as well
He had two sets of allegations: 2001 amd 2009. First time he was able to get charges dismissed if he agreed to six months of probation. Second time he was convicted and did 3 years in Laurel Highlands State Prison.
So I guess it wasn’t “end of story,” was it?
None of what you are saying is proves anything. This could be their attempt at destroying him, we certainly know they can and will do it. Look what they did to President Trump for 4 years.
Read my comment and sources above. He was caught more than once and served time in prison.
Doesn’t mean he is guilty. These people are liars and masters at framing people. Isn’t that what they are doing to the January 6th protestors. Isn’t that what they did to President Trump, LIE about him. These people are LIARS and they have ability to smear and destroy people at will!
In one of his interviews that he did , he talks about how they will come after you and attempt to destroy you if you refuse to play the propaganda game and say what they tell you to say.
It really is becoming clear that with social media sites….. the fact that they are parroting what a selected few in power want to see achieved ……….that the only way to combat this is with a physical response.
I mean for instance the servers for these companies use vast quantities of water for cooling….what if they were deprived of that water?? or the power than run its system……?
Anyone know where all the servers are for Facebook ..Utube….and Twitter are…….?
good luck with that…and please be careful about illiciting unwanted attention.
servers that support social media are a distributed network …a global network.
it not anything like your water district that supports your area.
at all.
Not so…… I read about data barges some time ago……here is one….
Here
Alphabet is a Nat Sec Threat!
“Regardless of your position on the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict, the larger concern is the manipulation of information in an increasingly totalitarian era.”
The totalitarian era is made up by governments around the globe. I feel bad for the people of Russia and the Ukraine. Withholding support for Zelensky does not equate to me supporting Putin.
FWIW weapons inspector Scott Ritter is a convicted pedophile, including having done prison time.
That would be all the more reason for him to push the Democrat/MSM line. Not to go against it.
Exactly!
I didn’t comment on the veracity of his comments. Merely the quality of his character.
I merely noted that he is a convicted pedophile (did prison time in Pennsylvania state prison).
☠️👿⚡️Maybe he’s “off” the Globalists agenda ranch where all the other political class, Bureaucracts and Globalist leaders live and play.
🌐Truly a Globalist occultic and perverted place.
They’ll wrangle him in or he’ll magically disappear to become worm 🪱 food.
“You can check ✔️ ✅️ in anytime you want,”
“But you can never leave”😳
It is technically feasible for the IC to plant digital evidence of that sort on your own networked electronic devices.
The question is would they? The possibility remains as we all know of their reputation with regards to entrapment for ongoing schemes.
Likewise when they want to “retire” their assets.
Yes. It is possible.
Sheryl Atkinson
We can’t spare him for the Supreme Court right now.
twice convicted.
noting: his second conviction resulted in a sentence of 1.5 – 5 years prison time. He was released on conditional parole having served the minimum time. I am doing some research to find out if the KENJI scotus candidate was handling his case as a judge. Probably not, but what I have learned is that the justice system and judges have failed miserably wrt to pedophiles…It’s apparently not unusual that judges AND PAROLE BOARDS are very lenient.
Yes, I agree Ritter is far from a credible source. By his background alone disqualifies anything he has to report.
By that measure – no one in Congress or the UN or EU leadership or certainly the degenerate Zelensky can be trusted either.
I would agree.
rhetorical question: show me the court cases that resulted in criminal conviction ?
I know what this is about. I have stated the facts about the abhorent behavior of Ritter. You can do whataboutism all you want and I don’t care.
I have also stated facts about his wildly inconsistent professional work on the matter of weapons inspection in this thread.
Just think of it this way:
what IF someone like sundance or glenn greenwald, or president Trump for that matter had two convictions on child exploitations…AND was intentionally wrong on matters of the most critical regarding foreign policy advise based on weapons inspections. But then right ONCE when they do a complete 180 and become anti war activist and not their former USG functionary rubber stamp?
who you trust them?
it’s important to examine the record of someone
it really matters…a great deal.
Look at ANY of the January 6th protestors that have been convicted.
“Yes, I agree Ritter is far from a credible source. By his background alone disqualifies anything he has to report.”
Oh really. Says who?
This is getting complicated.
Ritter is turning out to be a rabbit hole.
While it’s incredibly difficult to put aside his legal past,
and who knows what happened there,
his stances have been consistently anti imperial from the
small amount of reach I’ve done.
There are seeming incongruities with his work and his legal history.
I don’t know what to think about that.
Mind f###ery and turnabout is classic IC stuff.
The fact that he is challenging the CIA approved message is important.
actually ritter has not been consistent at all.
he was inititially a functionary of the bush administration and went to no ends to finds reasons (mostly as flimsy as a sheet of rice paper) to portray Iraq and Iran possesses chemical, biological, nuclear and also specific missile systems. he achieved that goal and supported the USG by manipulating “investigative findings”…Then he LEFT GOVT ..and apparently “found jesus” and became a anti war activist. He did a complete 180. Well good on him. And it turns out he was right….IN THE LATTER. NOT AT ALL IN THE FORMER.
what is disturbing is that when you spend the time to research and understand the kind of mind that actively seeks child sex…not once, but at least twice (likely far more times, given these were just the moments when he was caught doing it), you also learn how he “defends” his vile behavior.
what you end up with is someone who is not complicated, but a serious defect and evil and bad news.
For the record, there were many many others who were party to the weapons inspections programs that told the truth. He just got the lime light.
we should not be placing any special emphasis on anything this fool has to say. A broken clock gets it right twice a day. He was VERY WRONG in the former and ONCE right in the latter.
With his criminal record and poor batting average, I would not place any weight on anything he has to say, even if it turns out his is right.
There are plenty of other respected investigators doing great work to tell truths in this conflict. Ritter is not reliable.
There are quite a number of reporters, legitimate, who are challenging the USG version of facts.
Most of them, unfortunately are not here in the United States. And as far as I can research none of them are convicted pedofiles or have poor batting averages on high stakes conflict.
jmho
Thanks,
I’ll keep digging.
Just getting started,
and I’m beginning to recall hearing his name on CNN a lot back in the Bush days.
He is a rabbit hole, so I might just say eff it at some point.
Not worth my time to keep going if I just keep seeing conflicting
descriptions of him.
To SD’s main point though, cancelling his reporting on Ukraine
via Twitter is
definitely Imperial gagging of media.
And I can’t trust the empire,
so Ritters reporting fits my profile of what the truth should look like
right now in Ukraine.; I.e. there isn’t a truth.
I agree he is not reliable. See my comment above. I disagree about whether he was wrong on WMD’s in Iraq based on reading the inspection reports UNSCOM sent to the UN.
At one time, the UN published a book on the entirety of the first Gulf War, the resolutions passed by the UN, and all of the reports made by the UNSCOM inspection team. These were specific reports dependent on whether it was a chemical or biological weapon inspection mission.
A few of these reports can be found at the UN web site at:
https://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/unscmdoc.htm
Edited to add: This report is actually very good on how long Iraq denied having any chemical or biological weapons programs.
https://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/s98-58.htm
well two things:
UN ! Do I really need to compose a beatdown on that globalist pile of manure?
second, Iraq DID NOT FASCILITATE the 9/11 terror actors. AT ALL.
It was in fact the direct support, financing and grooming that took place in SAUDI ARABIA that formed the elements and possibility for those terrorists.
it was IN MY OPINION, held by also many others, that this was a black flag event developed by the CIA and Saudi Oil figures, to give the green light to blast Iraq. The benefits of this would have world changing effects: it would guarantee Saudi Arabia remained de facto oil and energy market making superiority, make billionaires to the USG contractors, and “enhance” special deals between the elite in the US and Saudi Arabia.
Every single element of weapons inspections in Iraq and the reasons to focus for that in Iraq was to develop a false narrative in order to get the world and the UN! to accept the US AND the rest of the world had some moral legal basis for destroying Iraq.
The MUcomplex around the WORLD benefited also because it was easy to predict that war would ultimately lead to the rise of at least half a dozen caliphates, which naturally means more military action to defeat it.
Now, how did I form this view? I can tell you it most certainly did not come from Ritter. He lost any confidence as a legitimate source of information the moment it was learned of his sexual deviations with children. I used many other sources, here and abroad to come to grips with how that war happened and why. I followed the money and the facts.
TO DATE, Saudi Arabia and the USG have never paid a single price for one of the most demonstrably example of unlawful exercise of military force, terrorism, AND civilian murders. Never held to account. Ever.
When the classified documents that conclusively proved that these terrorist were operating from a Saudi resource, families attempted to file suit against the Saudi Government to hold it responsible and to pursue the case in both US Courts and international courts.
Obama shot it down.
That was the moment when I completely lost all faith in the USG.
That was the moment when I realized the USG operates as a criminal.
“There are plenty of other respected investigators doing great work to tell truths in this conflict. Ritter is not reliable.”
For instance who?
He should have shopped around until he got Judge Jackson.
Boy oh boy you sure are committed to dispensing that information here. Makes one wonder.
This is an interesting site….particularly the comment section
SouthFront: Crisis News, World Events, Political SurveySouth Front | Analysis & Intelligence
I really hope Musk just executes a hostile takeover of Twitter to end this BS.
While I don’t agree on most issues with him, Musk does not believe people should be gagged.
Twitter is totally out-of-control.
Since when is Twitter “the” expert on foreign policy? Did Kissinger also buy a block of shares?
twitter acts in obedience to the whims of its globalist investors.
they don’t have any credibility as foreign policy analysis nor do they have any actual investigative fact checking.
they outsource it. to parties who have a dedicated and financed stake in advancing USG interests and only that. Or to a finer point, who pays the best. (which seems to be the USG at the moment as it also has regulatory powers if even as threat at this time for any large tech company who steps out of line.)
like almost all main stream maniacs do.
Does this mean that Hunter’s paycheck will cash this month?
Getting concerned. . .
Scott Ritter: “As things stand in Ukraine, I believe there is a far greater likelihood that Zelensky will be arrested and charged as a war criminal than Putin. The direct evidence of Ukrainian war crimes, complete with proof of intent, is overwhelming. And yet the western media ignores it.”
Thanks, Twitter.
Now we know without a doubt that it’s the truth.
Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu):
“I do not think he is exaggerating to say that the threat Musk poses to The Regime is “existential.” One cannot help but notice that The Regime is obsessed with silencing critics of The Regime — what would The Regime do if everyone was allowed to speak against it, and be heard speaking against it?
Also agreeing: Tucker Carlson:
One Panic after another, one Crisis after another.
They will not let the Panics end or the Crises stop because the second they give us a chance to catch our breath and think about the scope of their failures, betrayals, and treasons, we’ll strip the very bark off them.”…….
Looks like Elon Musk may have wasted his money.
The glaring reality of political censorship is in the deletion of the accounts of those who would speak the truth and expose the lies based on non-existing claims of “harm”! The simple fact that what Scott Ritter said was not only true, but blatantly accurate – says all anyone would ever want to know about what Twitter and so many others are really doing.
Sell the lie and the false narrative, but let no one counter their views!
Ritter is a moron. I laughed out loud reading his take on maneuver warfare and it’s application in Ukraine. I laughed even more reading the pro-Ritter BS comments that followed. That being said he should not be banned. Let him spout the worst asinine comments and maybe more folks will realize he’s nothing more than a has been Marine who likes little kids too much.
16 year olds aren’t little kids. It’s sleazy but not pedophilia.
that is not a good review about the nature of exploiting children AND young people.
at all.
that’s something I would have expected to hear from a scotus judge nominee.
please don’t.
Agreed
Victoria’s Secret – The MSM gets its war analysis from the sister in law of the woman who made the war inevitable.
An Anti-Ukraine Meme Gets A Fact Check
I’m thinking the Ukrainians have brought in some Palestinian “consultants” to teach them how to manipulate the media.
“…wut?”
I now believe anyone who Twitter bans. It has become so obvious that they are the enemy of the truth.
Scott Ritter also got this very right (Iraq and WMD’s). And, he was vilified by the Bushies over it.
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/10/21/scott_ritter_on_the_untold_story
Uh, no. That’s just what he chose to believe at that time.
Scott Ritter is now on Telegram, and has invaluable insight into the Ukraine situation. Also Patrick Lancaster, on YT, is actually in the Donbass region and has daily broadcasts. Also recommended is The Duran, for real news coverage. For a real deep dive into the propaganda coming out of Ukraine….remember, the entire cabinet and president were in show business, so acting is their profession…..Ryan Cristian of The Last American Vagabond, does great work. The point is that there IS viable information coming out of the region, but you have to look for it. You will not find it on MSM>
Thinking unallowed thoughts will be subject to fines and imprisonment.
Not kidding.
yuval noah harari. Dig.
Well, the “liberals” love them some totalitarian suppression of free speech. DirectTV drops OAN and the the MSM is gleeful that “the far right Trump-loving site promoting the Big Lie” is being taken off the air. They also condemn OAN for suing “a private company who simply doesn’t want to broadcast their channel.” imagine that. Defending a private company’s right to refuse service. Sad jokes write themselves.
The masters of the universe don’t even care what regular people think of all this. And who is to stop them? Big Tech is the Uniparty’s most effective goon squad. Their best weapon. Nobody is going to nerf or discard their best weapon. That’s why any attempt (mostly grandstanding) to curb the fascist monopoly fails miserably.
I believe the Ukrainian citizens!
Ukraine is not about global strategic interests. The democrats, Obama, Hillary, Biden & co, set up Ukraine as a base of operations. Remember Trump’s call to Zelinsky? He asked about Crowdstrike. You know, the American company that said the hack of the DNC server was made by Russia. That triggered the impeachment. Getting too close to the truth.
Which units are guilty of this crime? The Russian side of the terrible Bucha massacre:
https://thesaker.is/press-briefing-by-permanent-representative-vassily-nebenzia-on-the-situation-in-the-town-of-bucha-kiev-region-and-related-matters/
I can just about bet you that 95% of anything you see or hear on main stream media is a lie. Now after the deletion on OANN from AT&T’s airwaves. I just assume that 100% is bullshit.
Their actively trying to cover up their decades of depravity. At some point someone like Jack Maxey will pull the pin and throw a truth bomb into the mix and their whole lying house of cards will come crashing down.
I love love that “until next time” . . .
I would love to say, “not if I see you first” . . .
you think there is going to be a “next time” of voluntarily doing business with such turds?
There’s a sophisticated kind of trolling happening on this thread. It’s not seen that often on CTH but is quite common on other sites.
You are absolutely correct. Using the same old tired tactics you see on other sites. SMH
“Keep in mind this so-called “modern Churchill”, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has dissolved all political parties, banned all media except officially sanctioned state media, and openly is twisting the truth in order to hide that he does not control the actions taking place within Ukraine.”
Screw big tech, people are actually talking and agreeing that Zelinsky is a scumbag. What upsets people I talk with is that we are even involved when there are so many things to fix in this country.
Calling Putin a war criminal makes every US president involved in a conflict a war criminal as well. Believe me, more people than you think are seeing the strings.
Google Scott Ritter and Burger King.
No great surprise that Scott Ritter would get the ban hammer from Deep State Twitter. He frustrated Cheney/Bush by delaying their incursion into Iraq. Ritter was the UN chief weapons inspector who pushed back against the neocons. They were itching to go into Iraq. The narrative was that Iraqi scientists were not cooperating with the weapons inspections, so there was no point in waiting any longer. Ritter would not be pushed. He continued flying around Iraq, going from site to site and reporting that he was not finding caches of WMDs.
When the narrative changed to say that the inspections needed to end because the inspectors were at risk, Ritter stated that he did not feel sufficiently at risk.
The inspections stopped only after the company that insured the helicopters used by Ritter and his team notified the helicopter company that their coverage would no longer be good for such missions in Iraq. A couple of weeks after the weapons inspectors were forced to pull out, that very same helicopter service was flying the same helicopters in Iraq. At the time, AIG was the largest insurer of commercial helicopters. Five years later in the Great Recession, AIG was bailed out by the Fed. (Funny how those things work./sarc)
Scott Ritter is the General Flynn of the Biden Administration.
the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=The+owners+of+the+Federal+Reserve+Bank+of+the+United+States+are+the+Goldman+Sachs,+Rockefellers,+Lehmans+and+Kuhn+Loebs+of+New+York;+the+Rothschilds+of+Paris+and+London;+the+Warburgs+of+Hamburg;+the+Lazards+of+Paris;+and+the+Israel+Moses+Seifs+of+Rome.++http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-families/25080&form=APMCS1&PC=APMC
Banking, in the sense of lending money at interest, does ONE thing before all others, and that is that over time it accumulates and redirects money — pretty much all money, eventually — into the hands of a very few people. And that is THE problem with usury, loaning money at interest. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it is inexorable.
Now, a great many of the names in this list are Jewish, and that is because for centuries, Jews could only engage in a certain few limited trades, one of which was lending money because Christian rulers could borrow money from Jews without trouble with the Church over usury. Again, over a long period of time, the loaned money kept accumulating and thus produced a very few VERY rich people, some of whom were Jews. Most Jews didn’t get to benefit from that. So it shouldn’t result in antisemitism.
But until we recognize the essential, existential problem with loaning at interest, we’ll all be slaves to a few elites (regardless of what their religion originally was). In the Old Testament, God set up a Year of Jubilee, where every 50 years ALL debts were cancelled. We desperately need something like that and strict limits on how much interest can be charged. That would restrict the pool of money to be invested, certainly, and slow investment and development down, but slower development is not necessarily a bad thing.
The Muslims did get one thing right. No usury. It is predatory to continually punish someone for not being able to pay for a debt. Simply charge them a set percentage or fee and end it at that.
They get around Sharia laws banning interest by providing mortgages where the “lender” gets a percentage of the property.
Usury takes many forms.
two situations come to fruition regarding your solution: moral hazard and unwillingness to loan money.
Since you seem to believe the lenders should not charge interest: How about loaning me a few billion, interest free, for the next twenty years, with a contractual clause of extension for an additional decade?
That’s what the Federal Reserve does with their favorite shareholders and banks. Do you get money at the rate they charge Rockefeller’s Citibank or Diamond’s JP Morgan Chase?
I was skeptical of this guy back when I thought the Bushes were on our side(stupid, naive). He’s proven to be a straight shooter. I wondered what had happened to him.