Here We Go AGAIN! Congress AGREE To Send BILLIONS To Fuel Foreign WARS
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Is it me or is that Mark Zuckerberg absolutely gorgeous?
Have you seen that beard on him?
That better not be a trick, Mark.
That better not be a trick.
We've got a lot of fantastic news for you today.
We're talking about, of course, have you seen this yet?
Have you seen that there are companies funded by the CIA setting up media organisations to accuse people of being pro-Putin agitators, when all we're doing, and I say we, because I'm one of them, along with Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Mir Shaimar, our man Jeffrey Sachs, remember that guy who went, That time, saying that we're agitators on behalf of pro-Putin forces, when actually what I'm doing is advocating for peace.
I believe in peace.
Spaceman Spliff1371, he made a beard out of my pubic hairs.
Are you claiming, Spaceman Spliff, that you are actually an AI entity?
Good, I need some good news.
Mike Johnson just sold us out for billions.
Yep, that's the 95 billion dollar bill that's just passed.
You better believe we'll be covering that later, but will we be able to cover that on YouTube?
Will we be able to cover that on a platform that functions as one of the pillars of the establishment?
How do you feel about a political class that in the last couple of days has passed the Pfizer bill, meaning Your government has got more surveillance powers, greater abilities to spy on you and us because it's the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or whatever the hell it's called.
They're spying on us.
They're spying on you.
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So, we're going to be covering the incendiary event outside the Trump Trial.
Have to be careful, it's one of those things that's censored.
They do not like it when people make moves like that.
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My dog's really done a really, really bad fart.
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Russell, you made some weird quotes there.
No, I never.
Sundown snowscape.
I'm talking to the people in our Rumble stream.
This is how it should be, the news.
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To CNN.
We're beyond CNN at this stage, aren't we?
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I'm not drinking it.
Christopher John James drink it.
If you think I'm drinking the Zuckerberg poop beard, you've got another thing coming, baby.
Let's have a look at, uh...
You know, let's have a look at it.
And then there's a bit where they're really sort of objectifying Mark Zuckerberg.
I'm not sort of down with really.
But we've got, as I say, the main stories we're covering is the Pfizer bill, the $95 billion that's been passed, and the Trump event outside the courtroom.
They've finally found the jurors.
All that coming up in a fantastic show, as well as some fantastic reporting where we reveal how the CIA have been funding even Ukrainian media to shut down dissenting voices like mine, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker, all of that stuff.
Okay, let's look at Mark Zuckerberg's sex chin.
Here it is.
People like it, apparently.
Let's have a look at a video with the odd objective... People online have literally been thirsting over a news... I was actually in charge of queuing that up and I still put it on over my own voice.
So, what does that say?
A certain picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
A screen grab of the Facebook co-founder's... He does look quite nice there.
And I do sometimes, in prayer, I think, come on.
Like, I don't hate.
There's no point hating.
There's no point hating because it's all within the ecosphere of your own beingness.
So we've say, like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg's on a PR drive, isn't he?
Plainly, all of the BJJ, you know, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and stuff,
they're sort of trying to, because people think he's not properly human, don't they?
I'm not saying that he's not that, I'm just saying, and I don't even mean
he's an interdimensional being or a cyborg or anything like that.
I'm saying like lacking empathy.
Mainly perhaps because of just sort of how he looks or when he does that promo
where he's in a t-shirt and everything.
It's more, and also how he was rendered rather brilliantly by Jesse, what's his name, in the movie.
Anyway, so he's on a PR drive.
I do BJJ, I got this little sexy chin.
But I don't know if that's what's important, given that, did you see what they tacked onto
that $95 billion global war bill?
Let's have a war over in China.
Let's keep the Ukraine-Russia war going.
Let's make things yet more incendiary in the Middle East.
Also, ban TikTok!
Ban TikTok!
They're frying the kitchen sink of that thing.
Russell, are you getting a cold?
Yeah, I've got a cold.
I've got a cold, but we keep going, baby.
It's actually disgusting, isn't it?
That's actually disgusting.
Like, I'm a comedian, I've been in a lot of trouble over the years for a variety of things, many of which are actual total constructions and media confections and psy-ops from a globalist corporate state that can't stand dissent, and we've got plain evidence for that.
When it comes to Lee Fang's fantastic reporting on the CIA creating assets, which we'll be covering later.
And I think it's actually a bit rude to say, I'd zuck him off, just on the basis of a pun.
I'd, like, I'd zuck him off.
...user.
Gonna tell my kids this was Jack Harlow, edit another.
Oh, come and zucker this, Berg, chimed in.
What's going on?
...third person.
However, Mark's sudden glow... ...banalization, and it's the banalization, that means, you know, make everything dumb, and desacralization, that's the removal of the holy.
To make all things profane.
To make all things lack beauty.
So in the end, like, your whole life feels like the experience of being at, like, a McDonald's drive-thru.
Do you know what I mean by that?
Like, so that you're just sort of, like, you're in a transactional experience, godlessly travelling through...
Oh, can I have a Happy Meal?
I'll take the nuggets!
I'll take the nuggets!
We've got some fantastic reporting coming up later this week of how big food companies and fast food outlets are lobbying your government to ensure that migrant workers can prevent ordinary Americans demanding a decent wage for their labour.
Let's have a look at this banalisation and objectification of Zuckerberg.
isn't what it seems.
The original video can be found on Mark's Instagram page, because I'm participating in it.
Well, let me tell you this about Meta.
They depoliticise their content so that people don't see political content, which is actually a political act, i.e.
they switch to switch on Instagram, didn't they, saying, if you want to see political content, which means content by our reckoning that's potentially dissenting and adversarial to the agenda of the globalist state of which we are plainly an arm, you have to do all this stuff.
Now, that's a bit of promo.
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Uh, Boston Dynamics have made another terrifying thing.
Russell, you need a neti pot and some spicy Indian food to clear that up.
I do like spicy Indian food, and I also do like a neti pot.
That's like a little watering can.
You pour salt water up your snout hole, and it, um, you know...
it clears your nose out but you always feel a bit weird when you're doing it because it's
like sort of doing well over the years i'm sorry to admit that i have ingested powders up the hooter
hole but liquid that's like an Aussie Osborne snorting a line of ants
and so we take another step towards hell a former leader of my country Britain is promoting a book
on Fox News note how she's not good at promoting things look like look at me how i do this fart
mug get yourself a fart mug remember every penny we raise from the fart mug helps people with
addiction issues get into recovery and if you want help you let us know we're here help you baby
uh let's have a look at Liz Truss badly former Prime Minister of our country promoting a book
badly. This is about two...
Sorry, here's my new fart mug available now.
Oh god no, what do you do with a fart mug?
Oh, what's that?
Help me!
you and here's my new book. I'll just get it up. Sorry, I'll get it up front. There we are.
Yeah, congratulations. Sorry, here's my new fart mug available now. Oh, god no, that's what, what do
you do with a fart mug? Oh, what, what's that? Help me! She was in charge of a whole country!
She can't be in charge of a book! Um, you have...
Hey, you lot into the Tucker Rogan thing?
Do you think it's getting shadow banned on YouTube?
Y or N?
Are they shadow banning it?
Low numbers, right?
So yeah, I guess we're saying that these are the two biggest figures in independent media, right?
And do you think it was getting shadow banned on YouTube?
Let me know!
Of course, the lawfare against Trump continues.
A matter that is of minor interest to some degree.
The appropriation of campaign funds to pay hush money to Stormzy Daniels.
There are a lot of people... Do you remember how the media always say, the historic trial!
Like, it's historic!
This is history!
This is actual history that we're watching now!
They're shadowbanning you too, Russ.
You better believe it.
We are being shadowbanned to within an inch of our lives!
But with your support and your loyalty, we will grow this movement.
They're terrified of us.
Do you see how that WHO treaty is falling apart?
Because independent media voices that are reaching you And the communities that we're creating together are opposing it.
So the WHO treaty, they can't get that stuff through.
Yeah, help our algorithm.
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And after the first 15 minutes, which is coming up pretty soon, if you're watching us on YouTube, you have to click the link in the description and join us in that sweet stream of freedom that we call Lady Rumble.
That can't stream in Brazil because they're turning it into a Great nation of censorship.
Beautiful country, beautiful country, but there's censure in it.
It's already out of France because France wanted to ban Russia Today in case you saw a bit of Russia Today and went, oh my god, I love Russia now!
Let's have a look at this.
This is the historic trial.
Seven men, five women.
Let's have a look at how the legacy media convey this extraordinary tale.
It's very, very... It's just funny, I think, to watch.
Yeah, no doubt.
Tatty Peele, Neil.
They're shadowbanning it.
PooTube, you're calling it, Roy The Accuser.
Yep, yep.
Uh, oh, what?
Oh, sorry, that's why I pressed that.
Don't worry, that's a story we've got later.
Don't read that!
Look away now!
Look away!
Trump jurors have been selected.
Let's have a look at that.
This morning, seven men and five women have been sworn in to claim their place in American history as jurors in the first criminal trial of a former president.
They include an investment banker who follows Trump on social media, a speech therapist who said she does not agree with a lot of his politics, A judge with a grudge and a little bit of fudge.
A low-status music industry worker.
A little boy with three toes and, instead of hands, hooks.
Who are these people?
And also I think that they're trying to make it sound a bit balanced, even in their praises on them.
A school teacher who admires how Trump speaks his mind.
A school teacher who said she admires how President Trump speaks his mind.
And a woman in product development who said, I don't like his persona, how he presents himself in public.
All of them, though, pledged to give Trump a fair shake.
The judge declared, we have our jury.
Trump eyed them all.
That's it, that's good, that's like him doing it.
And look at those guys.
Listening to their responses with arms folded across his chest.
The day started with the judge excusing two people from the jury.
An oncology nurse said she had concerns about her personal information becoming public and
could no longer be fair and impartial.
A grandfather was tossed for failing to reveal his arrest in the 1990s for tearing down posters
that prosecutors said leaned to the political right.
The grandfather was my favorite one.
He was the one I was most into.
The judge also excused from the jury pool a woman whose social media posts called Trump a racist, sexist, narcissist.
When the woman read the posts in court, she said, oops, that sounds bad.
Well, that'll be, right, is Trump's lawyers will have gone through the jurors.
When the jurors come forward, all Trump's lawyers are like, right, let's check these people's social media history.
And then one woman who had made it that far had social media posts that said he's a racist, narcissist, psychopath, or whatever it said.
So, some of these jurors, at least some of them, will be people that are anti-Trump, that are like, I'm going to keep it down.
In fact, didn't the news advocate for that?
I think CNN did.
If you're in this jury, Paul, why don't you just say that you don't care about Trump and then get yourself on that jury?
The truth is, is that the trials, the very fact that the trial is happening is an indication of the degree of partisanship, because it can't really be legitimately and actually about what You use campaign funds to hush money Stormzy Daniels into silence?
This is crazy!
What are we going to do?
Let me tell you what real corruption looks like.
A lobbying industry that allows migrant labour to capture Rapsize the ability of Americans to demand proper wages.
What real corruption looks like is a $95 billion bill being passed to perpetuate wars on free fronts, essentially acknowledging that it is World War III that we're embarking on.
Do you know what real crime looks like?
A Pfizer bill being passed that allows unprecedented spying on the American population.
This is the corruption that we oppose.
These are the real crimes.
And behind them, who are the real criminals?
Let me know in the chat right now.
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(coughs)
Oh, you know when one really gets you.
Like in a church or... Like when you can't do it.
You know, you can't stop it.
Hey guys.
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It's good to talk to you, KRGO516.
Don't talk to Spaceman.
Absolutely will not.
What?
That's a dirty name.
Listen.
We're going to be talking about that $95 billion foreign war bill being passed.
We're going to talk about Pfizer getting passed through your house of mad, corrupt lunatics.
Kristen, the code is I SURRENDER.
All in caps.
Like you're screaming it.
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I surrender, Lord.
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That's proper Scottish water, that.
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Okay, now listen.
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That's what's happening with your taxes.
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If you said anything like that, you are in some serious trouble, mate.
You start saying we're not paying our debts back.
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Well, that's the world where we can pay the minimum amount of taxes to these corrupt lunatics that accept donations, that receive lobbying dollars, that invest in stocks and shares of companies that appear to benefit from insider trading.
Not that I'm suggesting that actually happens, right kids?
One of the things we have to address is the fact that perpetuating war seems to be of a supreme benefit for someone.
How long can we continue to believe?
That we are supporting wars for humanitarian reasons.
Does that stack up?
Do you remember one of the things we learned in the pandemic period?
We have to.
We love human beings.
Humanity is sacred.
All human life is sacred.
And therefore, if there's anything we can do to save just one life of one elderly person, we must do it.
And therefore, we've all got to be locked in our homes and we've all got to take this medicine.
Now, as an inadvertent side effect of that, I'm not talking about VARs or yellow card side effects now.
An inadvertent side effect is some of the most powerful interests in the world are going to get wealthier and it's going to get a hell of a lot easier to regulate and control the population.
That's a coincidence though!
I don't want you starting to put two and two together and making revolution.
That is the last thing we need.
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Okay, let's have a look at this. The house has passed.
Okay.
So, we know that the business of the establishment is war and business is booming.
The House has passed a $95 billion foreign war aid bill.
They have packed together a number of extremely complex issues.
It doesn't make sense to me, not a bit of sense, that escalate intentions In China, or certainly between the US and China, the escalating conflicts of the Middle East and the Ukraine-Russia conflict can all be effortlessly bundled together.
Nonetheless, that's what's happening.
The bill is passed.
After months of delays in GOP infighting, the US House voting Saturday to provide $95 billion to allies abroad.
A major win for the White House and Speaker Mike Johnson.
In a rare move, Democrats crossing the aisle to help Republicans clear a series of foreign assistance bills.
The package would provide $61 billion to help Ukraine fight Russia.
What?
You've just added TikTok to that?
Yeah, we've added TikTok!
Iran attacked the Jewish nation and 8 billion for the Indo-Pacific where the rise of China
What?!
has national security experts worried. A fourth bill bans TikTok if its Chinese owner doesn't
divest.
What? You just added TikTok to that? Yeah, we've added TikTok. What? What's that got
Well, I'll tell you what it's got to do with it, is that TikTok is a site that is difficult to regulate for the authorities of the war establishment, the pro-war machine.
Remember, the deep state are spending money Condemning and smearing dissenting voices, ensuring that they're regarded as pro-Putin instead of anti-war.
Why is the TikTok bill, the TikTok ban bill, tagged onto this $95 billion aid bill?
Let me know in the rumble chat.
Let me know, AwakendWonders.
Let's have a look at this extraordinary story and how it's evolving with some fantastic analysis here.
The resulting legislation The resulting legislation will give congressional sanction to the Biden administration's policy of global war.
The very fact that it will combine into a single whole the US interventions in three widely separated regions, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, gives expression to a fundamental change in world politics.
The US ruling elite views its conflict with Russia and China as interconnected Wow!
at Russia, Iran and China is interconnected theatres in the same struggle, the initial
stages of a third world war. American imperialism, the strongest military power but a declining
economic power, is engaged in a last ditch effort to maintain its global hegemony against
any possible challenge. Wow, this bill itself could be seen as tacit acknowledgement that
we are on the precipice of a world war. What other connection is there between these three
regionally disparate disputes?
Well, you could argue that the military-industrial complex benefits from all free disputes, whether it's by continuing to arm certain nations involved in wars, or whether it's escalating tensions in other regions, but perhaps the mentality behind it is one of global war in While acknowledging that as an economic power, the United States is in decline, but as a military power, they are still supreme.
And as the anti-TikTok bill indicates, by preparing to shut down an app used by 170 million people, in many cases to obtain information censored by the American corporate media, imperialist war is incompatible with democracy and freedom at home.
Stepped-up domestic repression is a necessity for the ruling elite, both to silence outright political opposition and to impose on working people the enormous sacrifices, both economically and ultimately in human lives, that such a war will entail.
War against Russia, Iran and China means a war against the American working class.
That's a complex and interesting idea, but the economic implications of this escalating conflict will likely weigh heavy on particular sections of American society.
And you will not be divided by religion or culture or skin tone.
You will be divided by your economic class.
This is once again a crisis For ordinary people.
But an opportunity for the most powerful forces in the world, comparable to the pandemic.
Where for them, it's an opportunity.
Comparable to the 2008 crash.
For them, it's an opportunity.
For you, it's foreclosure.
Comparable to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
For you, it means that bills were created then that are still being passed, facilitating surveillance, an unnecessary war in the Middle East, causing millions of death, and birthing new terror Not only into that region, but making it a domestic possibility in your homeland, in our homeland and across the world, creating yet more fear, yet more tension, yet more dread, yet more opportunity for the powerful.
The House passage of the War Bill brought together the two capitalist parties, uniting them in support of an unlikely hero, House Speaker Mike Johnson.
This unity is being actualised on the central priority of the US financial aristocracy, global war.
War is necessary.
It's necessary.
Without war, they cannot perpetuate their systems of power.
They cannot perpetuate They're dominant.
So it's not for humanitarian reasons.
We can't allow Putin's criminal invasion.
We simply have to support our allies in the Middle East.
We can't allow China to get away with this.
Now we begin to understand what this is really about.
The perpetuation of continued control, the subjugation of foreign powers, but significantly, the necessary defeat into constant supine states, the inhabitants of the United States, the American people.
House Democrats waved miniature Ukrainian flags as the roll call vote on the final passage of the funding of the Ukraine bill was carried out.
When it was completed, they began chants of, Ukraine!
Ukraine!
And had to be admonished from the chair to quiet down.
The supposedly left Democrats, such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of the Democrat Socialists of America, DSA, and members of the squad, joined in in celebration of the Ukraine war.
Let's have a look at that.
Let's see.
Other way, other way, other way.
Let's have a look at that.
Let's have a look at that moment.
Indeed, there were only 21 members of Congress out of 431 that voted no against funding these perpetual wars.
Doesn't that astonish you?
431.
That's Democrats and Republicans combined.
And believe me, the Democrats and Republicans are combined.
Particularly if you tally it, as we have of course done, with unusual wells reporting on how many members of Congress will directly and personally, financially benefit from this war.
How staggering, how astonishing.
Let's have a look at that moment of the members of your Congress, whose wages you pay.
Chant, clap like braying fools and animals at the expenditure of your money on foreign soil.
They are shipping your tax dollars straight out of America.
Meanwhile, the border to the South remains unregulated, perhaps because cheap migrant labour further destabilises the domestic population.
It's win-win for them and it's lose-lose for everybody else.
[applause]
That's your leaders!
That's your leaders.
That's the people that you voted for.
Those are the people that you pay for.
And they are very pro-war.
Let me know in the chat how this war is benefiting you.
How it's benefiting your sons and daughters or loved ones, relatives, husbands, wives that are in these fighting forces.
The brave people.
Tens of thousands of troops in the Middle East right now.
And yet more military personnel being committed to various aspects of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and we'll be covering that later in the week.
Saturday's votes demonstrate the most important reality about contemporary American politics.
There is no lesser evil in the 2024 electoral contest.
The lesser evil argument pretends to acknowledge the vast discontent with the Biden administration among millions of workers and youth while declaring that Trump would be still worse.
But the House actions over the weekend showed one party, not two, or rather two parties united for war, not only against Russia, but throughout the world.
The Democrats and Republicans agree on far more than they disagree.
They agree on war, on austerity, on bailouts for the rich, and as Chomsky said, Where both parties agree you have no choice at all.
Now I know a lot of you will be concerned about the apparent Ireland visit, so you can comb that out for yourselves.
The American working class must come forward to oppose the war on policies of the twin capitalist parties which threaten humanity with nuclear annihilation.
That would surely seem to be the most important subject now, the potential for those braying maniacs and lunatics
for whom we pay, who are so happy to facilitate the expenditure of your labor, your work,
your toil, your graft, your life into foreign wars that are escalating catastrophe for all the world's people.
No one is benefiting, no one.
It's a war for the elites, by the elites, funded by everybody else.
And that same political establishment has signed a bill extending warrantless spying powers in your country.
Well, it's going to affect all of us because, well, that's the way it's set up.
Let's have a look.
Legislation has been extended.
That's pretty much what it said there.
Now, former guest of the show, Rand Paul, had some interesting things to share.
And indeed, I believe he's one of the few people, actually, I would not be so reductive as to say All people in Congress, all people in the Senate, all members of Parliament, all politicians everywhere, corrupt, get rid of them because there are occasionally voices that resonate with you, aren't there?
You hear people talking in those rooms, in those halls and those chambers of corruption that make you think, yeah, they for a minute stopped chanting and praying for an unwinnable war that could be solved diplomatically so less Ukrainian people would die, so less Ukrainian cities would be destroyed, so less Israeli lives would be Be lost.
Peace!
Advocate for peace!
Oughtn't the power of the United States of America, particularly as it's powered by your lifeblood and your life's work, be advocating for peace?
Or shouldn't you at least be allowed to vote for it?
I'd stay out of it.
I'm English.
If you had a vote, a nationwide referenda, hey guys, we're just about to pass a 95 billion dollar bill, it's your country, it's your money, what do you want?
How do you think it would go?
The fact that there is no referendum tells you all you need to know.
know what you would do. Luckily occasionally a voice comes to the forefront like the voice
of Rand Paul when it comes to the issue of Pfizer section 702 who speaks clearly, compassionately
and eloquently on exactly the risks and indeed how the system works. Make it delaying this
vote until it's too late to do anything but obey and that's what they want you to do.
Obey. They'll only give you information if that information makes you obey. If that information
is in alignment with their agenda. Let's listen to Rand Paul. The idea that we don't have
time is a specious one.
The only reason we wouldn't have time is because the supporters of this bill delayed to the last hour.
We have five years to renew this.
We delayed it until we have four hours left, and then we're told we can't amend it because we don't have enough time.
That is a false argument.
The House is still here.
They're going to be voting tomorrow.
We should pass the good amendments today, send them to the House tomorrow, This is an argument that has been forced upon us by the supporters of FISA, who want no debate, and they want no restrictions, they want no warrants, and they want nothing to protect the Americans.
They want to allow whatever goes, whatever happens, happens, and to hell with the American individual citizen and the Bill of Rights.
I say, don't listen to the people who don't want amendments and don't want debate, and let's pass this amendment.
On this vote, the yeas are 31, the nays are 61.
Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to.
These are the kind of truths that we need to discuss and that need to be conveyed because it is continually perpetuating.
Stop supporting terror, Russell.
I am against terror.
I am against war.
I am against the fact that your deep state are funding Smear campaigns in Ukraine attacking voices like, well, Meir Scheimer, Glenn Greenwald, and of course me.
I mean, that I'm going to take personally.
American taxpayers are funding not only this war, $95 billion more, Also, they're paying to smear opponents of these wars.
So we ask, as you struggle to pay fuel bills and escalating costs of living, are you happy to fund Ukrainian censorship of pro-peace voices and to fund the smearing of anti-war voices like mine?
Here's the news.
No. Here's the effing news.
No.
Here's the fucking news!
Good news!
Your tax dollars are not only funding a variety of global wars, they're also funding the censorship and smearing of anti-war voices and it's all included in one package.
Actually it isn't, you're charged separately for the whole thing!
Deep state agencies have found a way to censor and shut down anti-war voices even in Ukraine.
So there are Ukrainian media outlets making content to smear anti-war voices like this one, this voice now that's talking right now, this voice, my voice, as well as Max Blumenthal and Jimmy Dore and a variety of other people that are saying should we have a diplomatic peaceful solution?
The deep state are funding the smearing of those voices, almost as if there's
a concerted effort to ensure that war is continually perpetuated and anyone opposing war is one way
or another bought down, shut down and smeared and thanks to some great journalism we can see the
paper trail right from your pocket and your hard work into silencing anti-war voices.
Let's show you how this works.
First of all, Max Blumenthal posted this tweet.
The State and National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cutout, are funding shady NGOs in Kiev to smear American critics of the disastrous Ukraine proxy war.
U.S.
government-sponsored Vox Ukraine has a series of videos attacking me, Jimmy Dore, Wyatt Reed 13, at Rusty Rockets, and more.
Of course, you know which one I'm going to focus on primarily.
Here is a piece of content created by that deep state funded outlet attacking me.
Russell Brand is a British actor, publicist and broadcaster who began his career as a comedian.
Brand leads an outrageous lifestyle and is constantly placed in all sorts of scandals.
YouTube has already stripped his channel of ad revenue for violating its creator liability policy.
By the way, we got that translated, to be fair, to the host.
She was saying it in Ukrainian.
So that even Ukrainian people stopped liking me.
What's the value of that?
Now the channel has 6.5 million subscribers is devoid of monetization.
By the way, it became especially popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Brandt began to spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus.
Well, quite.
Conspiracy theories like maybe lockdowns haven't been correctly researched, maybe the vaccines don't stop transmission, maybe Pfizer and Moderna take too much money, maybe there's a revolving door between Big Pharma and the regulatory bodies that are meant to prevent them from exploiting the population.
There was a whole host of conspiracy theories that were peddled during that period.
But let's focus now not on the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry.
I feel that you've been convinced of that.
Let's look at the military industrial complex and how they work in conjunction with the deep state
to take your tax dollars to shut down anti-war voices.
This is by the excellent journalist Li Fang.
You should follow him on Substack.
Ukraine's American-backed fight against Russia is taking place
not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbass region, but also on what military planners call the cognitive
battlefield to win hearts and minds.
I don't like the phrase Cognitive Battlefield.
That means your consciousness is their territory.
A sprawling constellation of media outlets, organised with substantial funding and direction from the US government, has not just sought to counter Russian propaganda, but has supported strong censorship laws and shutdowns of dissident outlets, disseminated disinformation of its own, and sought to silence critics of the war, including many American citizens.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, commentator Tucker Carlson, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer are among the critics of both the left and the right who have been cast as part of a network of Russian propaganda.
But the figures targeted by the Ukrainian watchdog groups are hardly Kremlin agents.
They simply have forcefully criticized dominant narratives around the war.
Saks is a highly respected international development expert who has angered Ukrainian officials over his repeated calls for a diplomatic solution to the current military conflict.
Last November, he gave a speech to the United Nations calling for a negotiated peace.
Mirshaima has written extensively on international relations and is a skeptic of NATO expansion.
He predicted that Western efforts to militarise Ukraine would lead to a Russian invasion.
Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize winning independent journalist who has criticised not just war coverage but media dynamics that suppress voices that run counter to US narratives.
What they mean when they demand censorship of pro-Russian propaganda is anything that questions the US-EU role in the Ukraine war or who dissents from their narratives, Greenwald has observed.
There is no evidence of Kremlin influence over their viewpoints, but their comments alone are enough for a network of US-backed Ukrainian media groups to tarnish these experts as Russian propagandists.
So, legitimate journalists like Glenn Greenwald and academics like Mearsheimer and Sachs are being tarnished as pro-Putin.
I met that Jeffrey Sachs, I know Glenn Greenwald pretty well, and they're not people that particularly, it seems to me, to have much skin in the game when it comes to geopolitical conflicts.
They're, in the case of Jeffrey Sachs, just an academic who's, well actually no, the history of Ukraine's quite complicated.
There was a coup in 2014, and like Mearsheimer, I don't know him, but I like his content and his academic work, and he seems to be simply trying to relay facts in a rather dispassionate manner.
And Glenn Greenwald is a brilliant journalist who I care about as a human being, but Also, I don't imagine he's someone who would just, like, for a laugh, take a bunch of money from Putin or victimize Ukraine for no good reason.
These are all very credible professionals who I strongly suspect don't have powerful pro-Putin or pro-Russian views.
I'm simply interested in telling the truth.
Note too that these agencies and their backers are centring voices on both the left and right.
So if you're on either the left or right, remember those distinctions don't matter anymore and we have to recognise that peripheral anti-establishment voices have to unify, put aside their differences if we're ever going to address this increasingly centralised and authoritarian power.
U.S.
taxpayer dollars are flowing to outlets such as the New Voice of Ukraine, Vox Ukraine, Detector Media, the Institute of Mass Information, the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, and many others.
Some of this money has come from the $44.1 billion in civilian needs foreign aid committed to Ukraine.
While the funding is officially billed as an ambitious program to develop high-quality independent news programs, counter malign Russian influence, and modernize Ukraine's archaic media laws, the news sites, in many cases, have promoted aggressive messages that stray from traditional journalistic practices to promote the Ukrainian government's official positions and delegitimize its critics.
Unlike similar media development programs that the International Agency for International Development, USAID, had led throughout the Middle East, Ukrainian outlets tend to produce a great deal of English content that trickles back into the domestic American audience and explicitly targets American foreign policy discourse.
The new voice of Ukraine syndicates with Yahoo News.
Vox Ukraine is a fact-checking partner with Meta, which assists in removing content deemed Russian disinformation from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Detector Media has similarly led a consortium of non-profit groups pressuring social media platforms to aggressively remove content critical of Ukraine.
That's very interesting.
So, it's not just happening in Ukraine, although that video that we showed you a moment ago is in Ukrainian and therefore presumably for a Ukrainian audience.
Elsewhere, New Voices of Ukraine is being syndicated with Yahoo News, which is significant.
Vox Ukraine is a fact-checking partner with Meta, and they assist in removing content deemed Russian disinformation.
Now, of course, if you are Ukrainian and you're living in Ukraine, your opinion on Russia might be somewhat biased.
But what are the interests of these CIA carve-outs in promoting particular views and participating in the
censorship not only it seems of Ukrainian voices and improving Ukrainian independent media and archaic
Ukrainian laws but shutting down dissent from within your country and from within my
country. Don't we have the right to express anti-war pro-peace and diplomacy views? Again I can't
speak for those other brilliant academics and professionals but for myself I'm not anti-Ukraine
and pro-Russian. I'm pro not spending tax dollars in perpetuating unwinnable wars and am
largely pro-peace and think that as a species we should have evolved beyond the point where we're
teetering on the brink of a nuclear war because people won't sit down nicely and come to some
mutually agreeable solution.
Congress is now weighing a new supplemental funding measure with approximately $60 billion earmarked for the war in Ukraine.
A small portion of the emergency spending package is devoted to continued USAID programs in the country.
Information control is a central dynamic playing out in the Ukraine-Russia war.
U.S.
media have provided wide coverage of President Vladimir Putin's efforts to clamp down on critical news outlets, enacting new criminal penalties for those publishing false information about the conflict.
But far less attention has been paid to the Ukraine government's crackdown on independent and opposition media, a push aided by the U.S.-backed network of anti-disinformation groups, Even as Washington's efforts to censor information at home is drawing greater scrutiny, its support of Ukraine's efforts reflects the increasingly global reach of the American government's propaganda arms.
I wouldn't imagine that things like this were happening, would you?
That the CIA had carve-outs that were funding groups in Ukraine that were censoring American voices.
It's quite convoluted for something that ultimately you're funding.
There's an information war going on between Russia and Ukraine, and the United States is not a disinterested party.
We're an active participant, said George Beebe, a director with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The US government has been trying to shape perceptions, and it's very difficult to separate what's intended for foreign audiences from what seeps into the Anglosphere media, if you want to call it that, including here in the United States.
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American influence in Ukraine's media environment stretches back to the end of the Cold War, though it has intensified in recent years.
Since the outbreak of the war, USAID support has extended to 175 national Ukrainian media entities.
Over the last decade, efforts to crack down on speech have been increasingly justified
as an effort to protect social media from disinformation.
The US helped set up new think tanks and media watchdogs and brought over communications
specialists to guide Ukraine's approach.
Nina Jankovic, the polarizing official whom President Biden appointed to lead the Department
of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board to police social media content, previously
advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on its anti-disinformation work.
It increasingly seems, doesn't it, that the categories of disinformation and misinformation were deliberately invented so that you could now have departments to tend to disinformation and misinformation and so that there could be budgets for those departments and so that those budgets could seep into media organizations that had a remit that includes censorship, Shutting down dissenting voices, smearing opposing voices, and cleaning up social media platforms.
It amounts to censorship and smearing, propaganda and control, but it's so bureaucratically entangled and framed in the language of, hey we're here to help, in the same way as the war is supposed to be humanitarian rather than some sort of colonial or for-profit endeavor, the censorship project is always seen as somehow necessary to protect us and our apparent inability to determine good from bad unless
someone pre-choose our information and parcels it up nicely for us as is clearly happening
here.
When Nina Jankovic and that government disinformation board was set up I feel like there was a lot
of pushback and a lot of people felt like this isn't legit this disinformation board.
They set them up in our country as well the BBC run them and there's all sorts of various
attempts to pretend that there are groups that are there to protect us and ensure that
we only get information that's good for us. I remember that many people thought this is
not legitimate this is not reliable it was a bit of a PR disaster and they had to change
its name and repackage it and reposition it. Isn't it extraordinary to see Nina Jankovic
literally outsourced to other nations to carry on the project as if it was a tremendous success.
Can you get any closer to neo-colonialism and imperialism than that?
We created this here in America.
It's worked so well.
It didn't work at all.
We're gonna outsource it so you can have your own!
Film disinformation and malinformation boards.
That's how it looks now.
Remember when we often talk about how dictatorships now won't be militaristic, but bureaucratic, technological, anodyne and astringent?
Well, it's the same here with the methodology.
It doesn't look like tanks rolling into town.
It's like Nina Yankovic coming into town saying, we're going to help you with your misinformation and malinformation.
Nevertheless, these are methods and means of control, and again, you're funding them.
It's an American project.
In response to questions about the US-backed anti-disinformation groups in Ukraine targeting Americans, the US State Department provided a statement saying it defines disinformation as false or misleading information that is deliberately created or spread with the intent to deceive or mislead, while noting that the US provides funding to credible Independent media organizations to strengthen democracies in the countries we work in around the world.
The statement declared, we do not control the editorial content of these organizations.
We're just kind of helping these guys, giving them a little leg up.
Here, there's Nina Yankovich!
Get that down your neck!
However, Disclosures indicate that the US government and its contractors tasked with reforming Ukraine's institutions have directly set the agenda for Ukrainian outlets.
It's, again, eerily similar to the rhetoric around the provision of weaponry or ongoing events in the Middle East.
It's none of our business.
Israel can just do... I don't know what they're doing.
What happened exactly?
And the same in Ukraine.
We're not at war with Russia.
Everything's sort of being done like they're just at a keyboard, just innocently.
Oh, is that an explosion?
Oh, it's a genocide over there.
Here, you might want to say this about Glenn Greenwald.
It's none of their business.
It's really odd and opaque and mysterious and frightening.
Immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, the USAID dispensed emergency grants to its media partners, partly through Zink Network, a contractor based in London that's been accused of setting up covert public relations campaigns on behalf of the British government.
I wonder what Kind of covert public relations campaigns.
The grant description notes that money went to the Zinc Network and Detector Media to assist the Ukrainian government with strategic communications and to undermine Kremlin information operations.
Last September, journalist Jack Poulsen reported on a leaked report from the Zinc Network's Open Information Partnership, which helps coordinate the activities of several anti-Russian disinformation non-profits around Europe backed by NATO members, including Detector Media.
The lengthy report defines disinformation as not only false or misleading content, but also verifiable information which is unbalanced or skewed, amplifies or exaggerates certain elements for effect, or uses emotive or inflammatory language to achieve effects which fit within existing Kremlin narratives, aims or activities.
I sense they're getting a bit closer to me when I see terms like emotive and inflammatory language, but what we'll tell you is I'm not trying to fit within existing Kremlin narratives because I don't actually actually know what existing Kremlin narratives are,
although I'll take a wild guess that they prefer that Russia's agenda were pursued
globally and in regional conflicts, but that sometimes converges with my general
belief that we should be pursuing peace and not funding unwinnable wars that
could lead to nuclear Armageddon. I don't know if that's part of the Kremlin's deal or not.
We'll look into it.
In other words, factual information with emotional language that simply overlaps with anything remotely connected to Russian viewpoints is considered disinformation according to this US-backed consulting firm helping to guide the efforts of Ukrainian think tanks and media.
I think that's all quite telling actually.
It's like they want to keep us in a sort of a flat, bureaucratic, anodyne environment.
Because think how that could be applied to a variety of subjects if this was allowed to continue.
You know, some of these organisations, like Logically AI, are working in your country in the lead up to the presidential election.
So if you've like got strong feelings and you use emotive language online on social media sites, that's disinformation.
That was some emotional language.
Hey, I don't I like the way my country is being controlled by bureaucrats who just seem to want forever wars.
That was a bit emotional.
Well, I am emotional about wars.
Sorry, you are.
You can't censor people for being emotional and telling the truth.
That's censoring a type of person and a type of trait.
It's not about facts.
It's about how you express those facts.
If you're like just a good communicator, they're going to shut you down.
They'll get you one way or another.
But everything I said was true.
Yeah, but you actually did some quite good jokes in there.
So I'm afraid we're going to have to kill you.
When's this coming?
Many of the broad narratives the report identified as Russian disinformation follow this vague rubric.
These include allegations that NATO is using Ukraine as a pawn in a proxy war against Russia and concerns that Ukrainian politicians are corrupt.
Allegations that NATO is using Ukraine as a pawn in a proxy war?
Do you not think that's like a possibility?
It's not something that you would consider when they're involved in the 2014 coup, when there are CIA bases all over Ukraine, and that Russia is a long-standing enemy in a war for global supremacy.
It seems perfectly reasonable.
Ukrainian politicians are corrupt.
That is also a matter of record.
Right, now we're getting there.
If you say actual facts that they don't like or they don't want you to hear, they'll shut you down.
So it starts off all very nice, doesn't it?
This misinformation could mislead people and lead them to make medical choices that are bad for them and their family.
And that's it.
That's the category of misinformation.
Also, though, if you say stuff that's true, but it doesn't work for Pfizer, or Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin, or the CIA, that's also misinformation.
Also, though, we like NATO.
I mean, what's left?
This is what's left.
Thank you, yes please, no thank you, okay, I'll go to work, have my taxes, but in the end, compliance.
That's what's left for you.
Compliance.
Ukraine's government has also worked with U.S.
government officials and others to censor its American critics.
One prominent example is Aaron Maté, an independent journalist who has criticized U.S.
policy regarding Ukraine in other outlets.
It's nice, it's just like reading all my mates.
It's like your visitors at school.
Hey, I know him!
Following the Russian invasion, Twitter, under its old ownership, flagged Mate to be censored after the Security Service of Ukraine, SBU, and the Ukrainian Intelligence Agency included him on a list of accounts sent to the FBI that were suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.
Fear?
I'm afraid you spread fear then.
Wait a minute, this is actually an abstract concept.
Sir, you just spread ennui and disappointment.
A journalist writing a critique on US involvement in a foreign war has had his name sent to the FBI.
Doesn't that concern you a little bit if you consider America's history and involvement in foreign wars?
Like, I don't know, Vietnam, Iraq and all foreign wars ever except perhaps the ones against actual Nazis.
Nazis, you would have questions, wouldn't you?
That shouldn't be, "Sir, someone somewhere has got an opinion on American involvement
in foreign war."
Well, get that all the way to Hoover.
Mr. Vice President, someone finally bought a copy of your book, sir.
Like, that's something that should just be accepted in a democracy.
And the fact that it isn't shows you where we are going.
Just to have an opinion, just to write an article, just to oppose the powerful is becoming contraband.
And while they're doing it, they're telling you that they're helping you.
That's what makes it all the more terrifying for me.
When we talk about dictatorship, sometimes maybe it sounds hyperbolic.
Don't be ridiculous.
You're free to do as you choose.
There's a McDonald's over there.
You could buy yourself some candy bars.
But when a journalist writing about American involvement in foreign wars is flagged and his details are sent to the FBI, that is not freedom.
That's not liberty.
That's how you move towards dictatorship.
What's happening, it seems to me, is that we are increasingly moving in the direction of centralised power and being told that to question that process is in itself hysterical, hyperbolic, conspiratorial, but it's evident.
It's happening.
Like, if you think about it, Aaron Maté, I don't know if you know much about Aaron Maté, but he's like an intelligent journalist.
Like, hmm, that don't seem right.
You know, he's not like a lunatic.
He's not like, oh, Russia.
That's not the vibe he's on at all.
You might, if you googled Aramai, what will come up is conspiracy theorist or nut job or grey zone.
But this is what's being created here.
What we're seeing is the machinery that discredits dissent and legitimizes, and more than legitimizes, normalizes almost invisibly the shutting down of dissent and the crushing of critics through supporting independent media.
Do you think for a minute That a CIA carve-out is, like, doing some philanthropic work with... Do you know what worries me?
It's Ukrainian independent media.
Those underdogs can't get a break.
Well, let's get over there and support those guys!
Give them some dollars!
Send Nina Yankovic!
Nina!
But it's about control.
It's not about anything else, is it?
Suddenly it gives you a different context for what happens to a figure like Alex Jones who's controversial and rhetorically quite evangelical.
Oh well it's Alex Jones, he's crazy, he said all those crazy things about Sandy Hook, he should be annihilated.
Well now we know the CIA were involved in that and were guiding that.
Does the bureau practice entrapment a lot?
We get really close.
Not officially?
No.
We get as close as we can.
Now we know that the CIA are not only interested in zealous, evangelical, fanciful figures that are full of flair.
It's like now it's Glenn Greenwald is a problem, and Aaron Maté, and Jeremy Sachs, and Mearsheimer, like these sort of quite staid academics.
Alex Jones is crazy.
Oh yeah, he seems a bit crazy.
Puffy cheeks and that, that's stuff he says about frogs.
I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!
Yeah, crazy.
And, plus, Glenn Greenwald.
Oh, what, like, was married to a man, and didn't he, like, adopt a lot of dogs, and didn't he win a Pulitzer Prize?
Yeah, he's crazy.
And Aaron Matty, what, Gabor Maté's son, who's, like, the journalist from... Yeah.
He's crazy as well.
So, obviously, things like the Alex Jones takedown, or maybe Joe Rogan either met him in CNN, or maybe old Russ, these things are like sort of vivid, glaring, colourful, entertainment style characters that are a bit crazy.
And then it's like credible journalists, academics, and you start thinking, well, what's the common thread here then?
Is it that these are sort of dangerous figures that are a risk to their audience?
Or is it that there's just some information that you are not allowed?
You are the problem in the end.
What they've worked out is if you have the kind of information that Aaron Maté or Glenn Greenwald or Jeffrey Sachs are conveying and spreading and populating or in the more entertainment skewed aspect of this, people like me are talking about, then you're going to go, well, I'm not paying those tax dollars anymore.
I'm not participating in this.
And increasingly, that's what you're getting.
You're people that You'll get in a situation where people serving in the American military are not pro-foreign wars.
I mean, once you get to that point, it's actually quite tentative.
So, this has to become increasingly insidious and immersive to prevent its own demise.
Just months after the social media request, Ross Burley, a former Zink Network and Open Information Partnership official now with the Center for Information Resilience, spoke openly about his desire to censor critics of the war, including Matteo.
Burley argued that social media platforms needed more responsibility.
Regarding what types of content to allow, even I saw Russell Brand, who has a huge following on YouTube, was interviewing a journalist called Aaron Mattei on his channel, said Burleigh, who added that he is incredibly irresponsible for YouTube and other social media companies to continue to host these people.
Well, by some eerie coincidence, YouTube, as you saw in that Ukrainian video, don't know who funds that, demonetized me quite recently.
What a coincidence.
The organisation supported by the US government have also sought to silence critics inside Ukraine.
Before the war, in one of President Zelensky's first controversial acts to stifle political opposition, he moved in February 2021 to close multiple television channels over allegations of Kremlin ties.
Oh wow, so maybe those ties were not legitimate either.
In May 2022, the Zelensky government widely expanded its efforts to outlaw the political opposition.
Zelensky moved to ban 11 political parties over alleged ties to Russia.
So ties to Russia is like a sort of weapon.
Ties to Russia!
The function of it is to eliminate dissenting voices.
I feel like I have to continually remind you that I know Ukrainian people.
I don't want Ukrainian people to die.
I just think that probably the Ukrainian government and the Russian government and the American government and the British government are all corrupt and we'd be better off without them.
Later that summer, other bills to crack down on media rights that failed to pass in the past over civil liberty concerns were brought back into consideration.
Among the on media laws most contentious provisions is the power granting a council control by Zelensky and his allies to ban media outlets without a court order.
Now they are a nation at war and again I would suggest you have a look at what Jeffrey Sachs says about how that war began and how they found themselves in that position and why there wasn't a peace treaty signed when one was available.
And during times of war censorship I suppose and centralized control is common and perhaps it could be argued under some circumstances necessary.
But If you remember, what we read and receive everywhere is that we are supporting this war.
What is one of the words you hear?
For freedom.
For democracy.
And whatever shutting down political opponents and media outlets is, it's not democracy.
It's not democracy when Ukraine do it.
It's not democracy when CIA carve-outs do it.
It's not democracy when they do it to brilliant journalists or academics or online YouTubers.
It's not democracy.
Free speech is a principle for a reason.
And you can see now that the creation of the category of misinformation and the normalization of censorship is part of a play to generate further power and tools to control the potential opposition to that power.
Ukraine's National Union of Journalists described the bill as the biggest threat to free speech in independent Ukraine's history.
They're also Ukrainian.
That's some other Ukrainian people.
Support Ukraine!
Which Ukraine?
The Ukraine that believes in free speech?
Or the Ukraine that In the midst of the first months of the Russian invasion, many in Ukraine readily accepted the need for emergency government influence.
The Ukrainian government condensed the major television channels into a single United News national broadcast that continues today.
That's so surprising, isn't it?
Dun-dun-dun!
United News!
What does that mean?
This is the only news you're getting.
Many journalists voluntarily paused critical reporting of the Ukrainian government to focus on coverage of the Russian invasion.
Now over two years into the conflict, reporters are facing new difficulties in reporting on routine issues.
Journalists taking a critical look at the government are facing intimidation and threats.
Expressing viewpoints that run counter to Ukraine and NATO policies with respect to the war is enough to make an individual an enemy of the state.
And of course you'll be aware and perhaps in your mind repeating the name of Gonzalo Lira, the American journalist who died in Ukraine after saying he probably would die in Ukraine, whose name is seldom mentioned.
Among other journalists imprisoned in foreign lands for writing the truth about the wars and conflicts they're reporting on.
So it seems to me that what we have here, thanks to Lee Fang's reporting, is another piece in the puzzle that demonstrates how media, the deep state and powerful corporations work together to create an environment in which only their ideas are allowed to be communicated.
It's only because it's so brazen when it's pieced together that you begin to feel irked and outraged by it because generally this This is normalised.
The category of misinformation and disinformation and malinformation that you've heard here described as people speaking emotionally and passionately, telling the truth, is now a problem worthy of censorship.
Academics, journalists, prize-winning journalists, online YouTubers, all shut down for the same reason.
Not because what they're saying is untrue, but because what they're saying runs counter to the intentions of the powerful.
So next time you see someone smeared, attacked, shut down, you have a series of questions in front of you to ask.
What is the reason this person or this information is being cancelled, destroyed, or eliminated?
Is it in order to protect me, or is it because they are a part in a chain, however small or insignificant, that could lead to dissent, objection, resistance, revolution, and therefore prevent what seems increasingly like a global scheme for total control from reaching its terrifying climax?
But that's just what I think.
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