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7 days agoInstead bloviating about China stealing our technology, maybe we should focus on stealing theirs.
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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
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Yes, I mean Patreon and Substack. I won’t be surprised if payment processors stop processing certain channels some day, because they’ve done it before. PayPal, GoFundMe, And Patreon Banned A Bunch Of People Associated With The Alt-Right. Here’s Why.
Katie Halper got fired from there about a year and a half ago for the same reason, at which point Briahna considered quitting in solidarity. This is What Got Katie Halper Censored & Canceled By The Hill: Israel Is An Apartheid State.
Last month Max Alvarez fired Chris Hedges from the Real News Network over his interview with Dennis Kucinich. The interview with Congressional candidate Dennis Kucinich that was removed from The Real News site and led to the termination of my show.
All these folks work off my & others’ Patreon & Substack donations now. And how long before those corporations drop them?
Edit to add: Greenwald interviews BJG over her firing.
Please remove the
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For those who don’t remember Scott Ritter:
- Ryan Grim @ The Intercept, 2020: Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down”
- YouTube clip: Joe Biden Talked Up War with Iraq Five Years Before the Invasion
Biden told Ritter that no matter how thorough the inspections, the only way to eliminate the threat was to remove Saddam Hussein. […] “You and I believe, and many of us believe here, as long as Saddam is at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect you or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out, root and branch, the entirety of Saddam’s program relative to weapons of mass destruction. […]
Hussein, it turned out, did not have an active WMD program.
During questioning, Biden mocked Ritter as “ol’ Scotty boy” and suggested that his demands — that the international community compel Iraq to cooperate with inspectors — if met, would give Ritter the unilateral authority to start a war in Iraq. Biden argued that such decisions belonged to higher-level officials. “I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether or not to take the nation to war,” Biden said. “That’s a real tough decision. That’s why they get paid the big bucks. That’s why they get the limos and you don’t. I mean this sincerely, I’m not trying to be flip.”
7·2 months agoNot only are there lost luggage haul videos, but also:
- Reaction videos to lost luggage haul videos
- Link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos
- Comments on link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos <— YOU ARE HERE
Muh MBFC!
Hamilton 68 is gone, but Hamilton 2.0 is still up, though they don’t track Xitter anymore because Enron took the API down.
RAND corporation provides disinformation tools, including Hamilton 2.0. Fighting Disinformation Online A Database of Web Tools
This person and their alts have been banned from lemmy.ml and some other instances, in at least one case their originating instance. The modlogs 💀
- downpunxx@artemis.camp (dead instance?)
- downpunxx@fedia.io
- downpunxx@kbin.cafe
- downpunxx@kbin.social
- downpunxx@lemmy.world
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Relatedly, someone has a “DownpunxxIsAFascist” account 😂 https://fedia.io/u/DownpunxxIsAFascist
Posted to other .ml and going to bed
OP, the reason you’re banned from lemmy.ml is that you spam for garbage site infoterkiniviral.com.
Edit to add: Looks like someone on lemmy.world did an investigation a month ago. Copypasta of comment in deleted post (https://lemmy.world/comment/8327544):
Just a heads-up, [@gagalo@lemm.ee] is another spam account pushing a garbage website.
Other accounts recently created that link to this site include:
@xmod@leminal.space
@xmod@lemm.ee
@watyuhhgg@kbin.social
@ROG43@lemm.eeBelow is what I included on previous posts, they have since updated their website to “correct” the oversights but I’ll include the old info. for reference.
The disclaimer on the website states [emphasis added]:
All the information on this website – https://infoterkiniviral.com – is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. infoterkiniviral.com does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (detiknewsone.com), is strictly at your own risk. detiknewsone.com will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.
Why the sudden switch in address names? Why is the contact us page just a gmail account and no additional info or even a generic web form? Unlike the other sections, the “about” page isn’t in English at all.
If you just give inforation from another source and credible why should anyone visit your website instead of the source? You aren’t entitled to ad views just because you can steal content or generate AI nonsense. Stop making throwaway accounts to spam links to your site and maybe try building trust by interacting with the communities you’re flooding if you need attention and want more reader
Some others appear to be:
- @ewaqo@kbin.social
- @wahyuaxl@incremental.social.
- @Lindsay-Blackburn527@thebrainbin.org
Besides the ones who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, you mean? Probably trying to avoid never getting work again, like Phil Donahue and Chris Hedges.
Dr. Liberalism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deep State
Looks like someone posted it to Pastebin, but that loses all the hyperlinks & images.
It’s behind a hard paywall. It’s a long article filled with links. A sample:
“They cooked the intelligence,” says a source close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia scandal, whose full findings have until now been blocked from release. “They made it look like Putin supported Trump,” the source added. “The evidence points the other way.”
The HPSCI investigators, who worked out of a “small office in Langley” and had broad access to classified documentation and witnesses from the CIA and other agencies, found U.S. intelligence analysts had “a lot of stuff about the Russians calling Trump ‘mercurial,’ ‘unreliable,’ and ‘not steady.’” On the other hand, the agency had information that Russians saw Hillary as “manageable and reflecting continuity. It was a relationship they were comfortable with.”
“We looked at the report and the sourcing they used to evaluate the sourcing,” we were told. “When we dug further to look at the data available to them that they didn’t use, and it overwhelmingly contradicted their conclusions that Russia supported Trump.”
The effort to manufacture the Intelligence Community claim that Russians had a “clear preference” for Trump” was led by then-CIA Director John Brennan, whom sources also implicate in an unprecedented effort to place more than two dozen Trump aides and associates under surveillance prior to the election. U.S. intel leaders like Brennan coaxed foreign allies, particularly from so-called “Five Eyes” security partners like the United Kingdom, into “making contacts and bumping” Trump associates throughout 2016.
A crucial conclusion of the HPSCI investigators was that both the surveillance campaign and the rapidly assembled ICA were conducted for political reasons. This was not a national security investigation that turned political. It began as a political enterprise.
“They thought they could damage Trump,” the source said. “It had nothing to do with our relationship with Russia. It was just leveraging capabilities to undermine this rookie unprepared Trump campaign, because they were easy marks.” This information squares with a report from a little-noticed interview of FBI Special Agent William Barnett, who was part of both the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe and the subsequent Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller. On September 21, 2020, Barnett told investigators in a different review that the initial belief that the Trump campaign was “penetrated by Russians” was “opaque,” a case theory based on “supposition after supposition.” He described a lack of predication and a “get Trump” attitude among investigators, who were guided by what he called “astro projection,” which led them from dead end to dead end in an Ahab-like search for an elusive “quid pro quo.”
The information obtained by Public and Racket is based on information from three sources close to the HPSCI investigation, who described reports and internal documentation assiduously kept from the public for years. Though gathered by Republican-appointed investigators, the data came from the U.S. intelligence community’s own records of the Trump-Russia investigation, just like another probe conducted by the same office that has already been proven true – the FISA abuse investigation.
Virtually every major contention of the original Russiagate probe has now been debunked, from the notion that the Trump campaign had a secret “back channel” to the Kremlin in 2016, to the idea that a Trump aide was an “agent of a foreign power,” to accusations of “collusion” with the GRU or Russian hackers. Even the idea of election “interference” in 2016 was largely a press fiction. As noted in the Columbia Journalism Review opus about the Trump-Russia scandal by Jeff Gerth, reporters from papers like the New York Times used phrases like “[the most effective foreign interference in an American election in history](file:///Users/owner/Desktop/RussiagateWB/v),” and even the Pulitzer Committee commended prize-winning Times and Post reporters for their coverage of “Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connection to the Trump campaign.”
Not even Brennan’s team ever used the term “interference.” “Influence campaign” was as far as they went, and no connection between the Trump campaign and “influence” activities was ever established.
There are still large segments of the population that believe there was a Russian campaign to help Trump and avoid a Clinton presidency. If there’s any proof that this conclusion is true, Republicans and Democrats alike should be demanding its release. Figures like Brennan, Comey, and James Clapper should especially be pounding a table to get that data out.
Absent such evidence, the HPSCI report — especially considered in light of all the surrounding evidence that dissent was suppressed — should allow us to consider that myth exploded. The still-blocked raw research needs to come out, however. In an election year in which the question of who violated norms first is paramount, voters need to see everything.
“It will come down to the documents,” is how one source put it. “The public needs to see them all.”
SF isn’t what people think it is. It has the most billionaires per capita in the world. There are few school-age children here, because many move away before their kids reach that age. We don’t have many old people, because many find they can’t afford to retire here. SF is not a real place, it’s a playground for the wealthy.
The SF Standard ghouls are having a banger day 💀 Fuck you, Michael Moritz.
wtf am i doing here
Maybe we need a PrematureCelibration comm for gems like this
Remind me never to be a newspaper columnist, at the mercy of cringey copy editors’ dumb-ass headlines.
In the first dot-com bubble burst and in the Great Recession, many quit the business and moved to cheaper locales around the country. Given that COVID-19 has made remote work more acceptable, in some ways it’s now easier to lower your C.O.L. while staying in the business. But it also means you’re competing with others who can also afford to work for less because they also live in cheaper locales.