Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:38 p.m. No.13349001   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9270 >>9418 >>9429 >>9558 >>9654

Psaki Gets Testy When Asked Why Biden Urged MLB to Move its All-Star Game From Georgia Over Voting Law, But Won’t Call For Boycott of Winter Olympics in Beijing

 

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday got very testy with RealClearNews reporter Philip Wegmann when he asked why Biden urged the MLB to move its All-Star game from Georgia over the state’s new voting law, but won’t call for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beiing.

 

“I’m wondering when can we expect a final determination from the president about the United States participating in the Beijing Olympics given that he said the Chinese president does not have a democratic bone in his body?” the reporter asked Psaki.

 

Psaki did not like the question and responded with a rude, snide remark.

 

Joe Biden told ESPN on Wednesday he “would strongly support” MLB moving the game, calling the Georgia law “Jim Crow on steroids”.

 

The woke mob won based on lies about Georgia’s voting integrity law.

 

Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced Friday the MLB is moving the 2021 All Star Game and Draft from Atlanta in response to the new voting integrity law passed in Georgia last month. The All Star Game was set to be hosted by the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park stadium on July 13. The draft was to be held in Atlanta July 11-13.

 

Not a word from China Joe calling for a boycott of the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/psaki-gets-testy-asked-biden-urged-mlb-move-star-game-georgia-voting-law-wont-call-boycott-winter-olympics-beijing-video/

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:40 p.m. No.13349007   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9021 >>9095 >>9270 >>9418 >>9429 >>9558 >>9654

Georgia Sen. Ossoff Breaks With Biden Over Baseball Boycott Due To New Voting Law

 

Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff broke Friday with President Joe Biden, saying he won’t support moving Major League Baseball’s (MLB) All-Star game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s new divisive voting law.

 

The game was set to be held July 13 at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. The MLB moved the location due to the new voter laws, however, which require among other things that voters provide a photo ID such as a drivers license when they submit an absentee ballot.

 

“I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia,” Ossoff said. “Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity and events. In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political progress we have seen here. Georgia welcomes the world’s business. Corporations disgusted like we are with the disgraceful Voter Suppression bill should stop any financial support to Georgia’s Republican Party, which is abusing its power to make it harder for Americans to vote.”

 

The MLB announced Friday afternoon that they will move the All-Star game and draft out of Atlanta due to the state passing the new election law.

 

Biden was asked about moving the All-Star game in a Wednesday interview with ESPN, to which he said the MLB should move it out of Georgia.

 

“Look at what’s happened across the board. The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports,” Biden said when asked about moving the game by ESPN’s Sage Steele on Wednesday. “I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They’re leaders.”

 

Two of the largest companies based in Atlanta, Delta and Coca-Cola, along with a range of other corporations have criticized the new law.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/02/georgia-jon-ossoff-breaks-with-joe-biden-baseball-mlb-boycott-voting-law/

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:42 p.m. No.13349014   🗄️.is 🔗kun

US Air Force Bomber Chief Dismisses Army’s Ground-Based Missile Push as ‘Expensive’ and ‘Stupid’

 

While the US Army tries to edge its way into the hypersonic weapons game with a ground-launched intermediate-range missile, the US Air Force is seeking to defend its turf as the Pentagon’s supreme long-range strike service.

 

The US Army’s primary modernization focus is its Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) program, intended to give the Army missile and artillery weaponry capable of surface-to-surface strikes from increasingly long distances. However, the head of the US’ bomber fleet let slip earlier this week that he thinks that’s a really dumb idea.

 

“Why in the world would we entertain a brutally expensive idea when we don’t, as the [Defense] Department, have the money to go do that?” Gen. Timothy Ray, who leads Air Force Global Strike Command, asked the hosts of the Mitchell Institute’s Aerospace Advantage podcast released on Thursday.

 

“I’ve had a few congressmen ask me. And you know what? Honestly I think it’s stupid,” Ray continued, according to Defense News. “I just think it’s a stupid idea to go and invest that kind of money that recreates something that the service has mastered and that we’re doing already right now. Why in the world would you try that? I try to make sure that my language isn’t a little more colorful than it is, but give me a break.”

 

In particular, Ray argued it would be hard to sell regional partners in Europe and Asia on the Army’s new weapons, whereas bombers have “a proven capability” to strike targets at extended range.

 

According to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, the service has already spent $1.3 billion on its LRPF program and he asked lawmakers last month to okay another $1.7 billion for fiscal year 2021, $800 million of which will go towards a ground-launched hypersonic missile battery. In all, the Army foresees spending $10 billion over the next decade on LRPF.

 

Some of the other weapons developed by the Army for the program have included the M982A1 Excalibur extended range guided artillery shell, with a range of 43 miles, and the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA), the massive mobile cannon that fires it. Many are more recent additions, since their longer ranges potentially violated the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which then-US President Donald Trump allowed to lapse in 2019. The treaty banned American and Russian ground-launched missiles with ranges of between 500 kilometers and 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,420 miles), which were feared for their ability to conduct a lightning-quick nuclear strike.

 

Another weapon created under the program include the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), a longer-range missile that will replace the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) fired by the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platform. The Army is also adapting the US Navy’s Tomahawk cruise missile and Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), originally an air defense weapon converted to surface strike.

 

With such ultra-long ranges, these weapons are expected to rely on “spotter” aircraft, which could be drones but also F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, which have proven in tests to be able to transmit accurate targeting information on enemy positions to HIMARS units.

 

However, the Marine Corps’ long-range fires program has proven no more popular: in December, lawmakers gutted the USMC’s budget for developing its own version of the Tomahawk as well as a ground-based version of the Naval Strike Missile. The UMSC is looking to revamp its warfighting doctrine, shifting away from heavy land fighting units and toward a combination of naval units and deployable front-line assets like the HIMARS, which can be flown into forward areas at the start of a conflict and then quickly moved again.

 

https://sputniknews.com/military/202104021082525108-us-air-force-bomber-chief-dismisses-armys-ground-based-missile-push-as-expensive-and-stupid/

 

The invitations to attack the US keep going out

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:45 p.m. No.13349029   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9044 >>9270 >>9418 >>9429 >>9558 >>9654

Russia Warns NATO Against Sending Any Troops To Ukraine As "Frightening" Escalation Looms

 

The Kremlin's latest statements out Friday amid the potential new Ukraine crisis which has seen a serious flare-up in fighting in the Donbass region, along with what appears to be far bigger-than-usual troop movements on Russia's side of the border, has raised the stakes further.

 

Russia has vowed it will take "extra measures to ensure its own security" should it observe any deployment of NATO troops inside Ukraine, the Kremlin statement said Friday according to Reuters.

 

It firmly warned against any potential looming NATO troop movements following Brussels voicing concern the day prior over the widespread reports and videos purporting to show a significant Russian build-up of forces along Ukraine's eastern border.

 

Reuters reports Russia's Friday statement and "warning" as follows:

 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that the situation at the contact line in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatist forces was quite frightening and that multiple "provocations" were taking place there.

 

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Taran, and "condemned recent escalations of Russian aggressive and provocative actions in eastern Ukraine," the Pentagon said.

 

"Our rhetoric [over Donbass] is absolutely constructive," Peskov said in response to journalists' questions. "We do not indulge in wishful thinking. Regrettably, the realities along the engagement line are rather frightening. Provocations by the Ukrainian armed forces do take place. They are not casual. There have been many of them."

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian troop movements across the border, calling the situation "muscle-flexing" likely to lead to "provocations" for which Ukraine's army is "ready"…

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/frightening-escalation-looms-russia-warns-nato-against-sending-any-troops-ukraine

 

Do you think the scare event is being engineered in Ukraine?

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:48 p.m. No.13349040   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9127

This “Full Spectrum Dominance” propaganda/censorship front is being conducted in the following manner:

 

1) Manipulation of website comment sections via paid government operatives

 

2)Manipulation of online forums via infiltration of moderators and administrators

 

3)Reverse psychological projection techniques, including McCarthyism tactics and blame shifting

 

4)Establishment of controlled opposition groups and websites

 

5)Mass media coordination in collusion with an obvious government/elitists agenda

 

6)Use of advanced Deep State software tools to coordinate propaganda campaigns

 

7)Reverse psychological techniques focused on a specific government targeted adversary (in this case – Russia)

 

8)Monitoring of online groups that are in opposition to the government/elitists agenda

 

9)Labeling and discrediting of online news sites, groups and individuals that are in opposition to the government agenda, as “fake groups”

 

10)Manufacturing of ‘evidence’ in coordination with government selected propaganda approval outlets, thus allowing for plausible deniability (Snopes, Factcheck, Politifact, Stopfake, Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, Aleppo Media Center, Bellingcat)

 

11)Massive increases in funding to US government propaganda dissemination outlets (Broadcasting Board of Governors, RFE)

 

12)Utilization of leading social media networking sites (Facebook) to censor information, relegate certain sites to obscurity and cater to pro-government propaganda

 

13) Manipulation of search engine algorithms to produce results that are favorable to the governments agenda (Google, Yahoo)

 

14) Coordination with Internet giants to conduct operations that are favorable to the governments agenda

 

15) Infiltration of mass media corporations, online social media sites and Internet search engines that vastly affect public perception.

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:52 p.m. No.13349055   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9074 >>9270 >>9418 >>9429 >>9558 >>9654

Wikileaks Revealed Saudi Arabia and Qatar Giving Money to both Clinton and ISIS

 

The first two emails below reveal that the Podesta/Clinton team fully understood that Qatar and Saudi Arabia finance ISIS and international terrorism. These email exchanges in this post took place immediately after the Wall Street Journal/Grimaldi article titled

 

“Foreign Government Gifts to Clinton Foundation on the Rise”

 

By James V. Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus

 

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774

 

Excerpt:

 

This entire effort should be done with a low profile, avoiding the massive traditional military operations that are at best temporary solutions. While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.

 

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11351

 

Excerpt:

 

One area in which these countries should take more action is cracking down on private financing that flows from some Gulf countries to terrorist groups such as ISIS—and the United States should increase its Treasury and Justice Department efforts to cut the financial links between the Gulf and extremist groups such as ISIS.

 

3rd email: Bill Clinton $1 million birthday donation from Qatar….

 

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

 

Excerpt:

 

Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Malawi, Rwanda

 

From:adesai@clintonfoundation.org To: blindsey@clintonfoundation.org, lgraham@clintonfoundation.org, doug@presidentclinton.com, justin@presidentclinton.com Date: 2012-04-16 18:56 Subject: Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Malawi, Rwanda

 

Last Thursday, April 12, I met individually with the Ambassadors from Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Malawi, and Rwanda, in Washington, DC. Below is a summary of key points from each meeting, and we are following-up on each point. I’d welcome your feedback. Sincerely, Ami QATAR – Would like to see WJC “for five minutes” in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011. – Qatar would welcome our suggestions for investments in Haiti – particularly on education and health. They have allocated most of their $20 million but are happy to consider projects we suggest. I’m collecting input from CF Haiti team.

 

https://twitter.com/mrwalsh8/status/786577002601943040/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

 

4th email excerpt: Attempting to put out ‘brush fires’…..

 

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/38805

 

Most revealing excerpts:

 

Subject: RE: WSJ | Foreign Government Donations I will leave all the defensive things to those who have and know the data for pushback. But there is a much larger strategic question that we need to resolve and stop this from spreading beyond today and probably tomorrow. And that is how quickly foundation stops. Even if we don’t announce it immediately, we may want to stop immediately. Obviously, doing this in the context of an overall strategy we can stick with is better than dealing with brush fires.

 

Qatar was for CGI

 

The only governments that donated to the endowment were: Saudi Arabia, Oman, and UAE

 

On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Margolis, Jim < Jim.Margolis@gmmb.com<mailto:Jim.Margolis@gmmb.com wrote: Nick, So virtually all of these donations were to the endowment and were not for specific projects, correct?

 

It would be nice to paint a picture of how this money is being put to work — even anecdotally.

 

More on their discussions and awareness of problematic Clinton Foundation donations from states that support terrorism or have a dubious record regarding support for terrorist related activities:

 

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37712

 

https://youtu.be/k9xbokQO4M0

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:55 p.m. No.13349071   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A In-Depth Look at the Main Saudi Cleric Leading Terrorist Operations in Syria

 

Abdallah al-Muhaysini, a Pivotal Figure in the Islamist terrorist attacks on Syria

 

Abdallah al-Muhaysini came to Syria in 2013 to partake in the western orchestrated overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. He presents a unique case of the outsized role a single person can play in the lawless world of the so called Syrian rebellion. He has positioned himself at the center of radical jihadist politics, fund raising, and legal opinion.

 

Al-Muhaysini hails from the al-Qassim region in Saudi Arabia. Prior to his arrival to Syria, he completed his MA and PhD studies in Islamic Jurisprudence in the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, with a dissertation on “The Treatment of Prisoners of War in Islamic Jurisprudence.” A self-professed Salafi jihadist scholar, al-Muhaysini is often seen on the battlefields of northern Syria together with various Islamist factions, prominent among whom are Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), in addition to other factions affiliated with the Jaish al-Fateh coalition. He has set up institutions that provide military and financial aid to jihadist groups, and runs a proselytization (Dawah) center (named “The Jihad’s Callers Center“) in Idlib Province.

 

Al-Mushaysini holds the title General Judge of Jaish al-Fateh. He is highly revered in the jihadi-Salafi landscape (notwithstanding Islamic State adherents), embracing a leading role in the warfare – most recently in the Jabha al-Nusra takeover, together with the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) of the Abu al-Dhuhur Air Base and in the Jaish al-Fatah battles for control over al-Fuah this month (September 2015). During clashes in the last year, he was documented delivering inflammatory speeches to the troops and bestowing religious blessing upon suicide bombers before embarking on their missions.

 

Saudi cleric motivation speech before the attack on Aleppo | October 28th 2016

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d9f_1477865627#0CGBjQ4WjhvF3GUg.99

 

More on the terrorists propaganda arm Orient TV in the UAE here:

 

https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/understanding-the-orient-tv-propaganda-arm-of-the-gulf-state-jihadists-in-syria/

 

Excerpt:

 

Orient News TV, based in UAE, and broadcasts to Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

 

Orient News TV aims to address Syrian viewers in specific and the Arab world in general, with cultural and entertainment programming as well as information and news. Orient TV opened in Damascus in February 2009, employing 149 Syrians. However the government soon had doubts about having granted a license to Orient TV, and in July 2009 Syrian security forces raided Orient TV’s offices. As a consequence Orient TV moved to Dubai. The station began broadcasting outside of Syria with coverage of the first civil courts established in Idlib province.

 

Certain aid groups have been filmed on occasion working alongside the terrorists and proxy groups designed as NGO’s, examples here:

 

US and UK Agencies, Media and Governments Cover For White helmet Terrorists in Syria

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18f_1478048973#7wtopbqSpvDkW8UP.99

 

Open Collusion: Multi-incidents of Red Cross Working Side By Side With White Helmet Terrorist Front Group

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fa_1477944068#WwBxqyCGlPEkdwAU.99

 

Western Government Backed White Helmets ‘Humanitarian Aid Workers’ Enjoy An Allah-Akbar Fest With al-Nusra (al-Qaeda) Terrorists

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=564_1477535559#sP2hVIOERGSx71G7.99

 

Joe Biden Slips Up and Admits Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey Finance ISIS, al-Nusra Front Terrorists

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=879_1477402880#WG4WhZsmzt28f6AO.99

 

The UK/US/Saudi/Soros financed White Helmets are seen in the above video operating side by side with radical Islamic jihadists in East Aleppo, Syria. UK media outlets such as the Guardian, the Independent, the BBC and ITV4 were recently pushing for these ‘White Helmet’ (read terrorists) to receive a Nobel Peace prize. This shows you how far and how low the UK media has stooped in their ‘reporting’. These media outlets and this group are exploiting children to place on their front pages to fool the public while they nefariously support terrorism.

 

In August 2016 CNN tried rebranding al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda) and even gave them air time to explain their name change……..gotta love that CNN ‘reporting’!

 

Video exposes how CNN provides air time to legitimize al-Qaeda terrorists that conducted 9/11

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2f9_1476672968#Jo5MZWv8jWcCsFuO.99

 

https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/01/12/a-in-depth-look-at-the-main-saudi-cleric-leading-terrorist-operations-in-syria/

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 3:59 p.m. No.13349088   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Mossad Complicity: MSM Articles and Videos Reveal That Israel Supports ISIS Terrorists in Syria

 

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-UN-report-reveals-collaboration-between-Israel-and-Syrian-rebels-383926

 

NEW UN REPORT REVEALS COLLABORATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIAN REBELS

 

> Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meets Russian deputy foreign minister in Beirut

> Head of Syrian army after alleged airstrikes: Israel working with ISIS and al-Qaida

 

The new documents show that Israel has been doing more than simply treating wounded Syrian civilians in hospitals.

 

NEW YORK – The Syrian ambassador to the UN has long complained of a Zionist conspiracy working with the Syrian rebels to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

 

Now, a report from the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) reveals that Israel has been working closely with Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights and have kept close contact over the past 18 months. The report was submitted to the UN Security Council at the beginning of the month.

 

The documents show that Israel has been doing more than simply treating wounded Syrian civilians in hospitals. This and a few past reports have described transfer of unspecified supplies from Israel to the Syrian rebels, and sightings of IDF soldiers meeting with the Syrian opposition east of the green zone, as well as incidents when Israeli soldiers opened up the fence to allow Syrians through who did not appear to be injured.

 

Official link to UN Report –

 

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for the period from 20 November 2014 to 3 March 2015

 

UN: Israel interacting with rebels on Syrian borderUNDOF peacekeepers detail cooperation between IDF troops and insurgents in the Golan Heights

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-israel-interacting-with-rebels-on-syrian-border/

 

Reports presented to the United Nations Security Council reveal numerous interactions between Israeli troops and rebel groups on the Israel-Syrian border over the past year and a half.

 

UN observers in the Golan Heights meticulously detailed instances of contact between IDF soldiers and rebels, including Syrians being sent into Israel for medical treatment, and the transfer of items and containers, according to records maintained by the UN disengagement force in the Golan demilitarized zone.

 

ISRAEL SECRETLY PAYING SALARIES OF SYRIAN REBELS ON GOLAN HEIGHTS BORDER: REPORT

 

http://www.newsweek.com/israel-secretly-paying-salaries-syrian-rebels-golan-heights-627155

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4456130/ISIS-fighters-APOLOGISED-attack-Israeli-soldiers.html

 

https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/07/22/mossad-complicity-msm-articles-and-video-reveal-that-israel-supports-isis-terrorists-in-syria/

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 4:08 p.m. No.13349132   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9270 >>9418 >>9429 >>9558 >>9654

Report: Andrew Cuomo Eyes $2.1B Taxpayer-Funded Benefits for Illegal Aliens, Convicted Felons

 

While more than a million jobs have been lost in New York and an estimated 80,000 New York businesses may not make it to the end of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is negotiating a plan to provide $2.1 billion worth of taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens and convicted felons.

 

Sources told the New York Post this week that Cuomo, along with New York State Democrats, is negotiating a $2.1 billion fund where at least 187,000 illegal aliens and 87,000 felons could receive taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits that mirror state and federal benefits.

 

“It makes no sense to send billions of taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants and convicted felons,” state Sen. Daphne Jordan (R-NY) told the Post.

 

Illegal alien and felon recipients could receive up to $28,600 a year thanks to the taxpayer-funded benefits, according to analysts. Weekly, illegal aliens and felons could receive $500 a week. For those unemployed since March 2020, recipients could receive on average $12,600.

 

Recipients, should the taxpayer-funded program be included in the state budget, could also become secure medical coverage paid for by New York’s public health insurance program.

 

Illegal aliens already enjoy protection from federal immigration law in New York thanks to the state’s sanctuary policy while those accused of violent crime receive regular aid via Cuomo’s bail initiative that frees them from jail almost immediately after being arrested.

 

Those benefiting from the bail initiative include suspects accused of second-degree manslaughter, aggravated vehicular assault, third-degree assault, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, and about 100 other crimes.

 

New York, and particularly New York City, has been ravaged by Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) economic lockdown measures that have now been in place for more than a year. Historic venues, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and local neighborhood spots have had to close their doors for good as a result of the lockdowns.

 

Those forced to close include The Roosevelt hotel in Midtown East that opened in 1924, the Copacabana nightclub which opened in 1940, The Paris Cafe which opened in 1873, and Empire Coffee & Tea which opened in 1908 among hundreds of others.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2021/04/02/report-andrew-cuomo-eyes-2-1b-taxpayer-funded-benefits-illegal-aliens-convicted-felons/

Anonymous ID: 5cce40 April 2, 2021, 4:10 p.m. No.13349139   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9209

Facebook Is a Tool of Chinese Propaganda and Workers Are Objecting

 

China has banned Facebook but that hasn’t stopped Beijing from using the social media platform as a gigantic instrument of state propaganda.

 

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are exposed to Facebook highlighting sponsored posts from the Chinese Communists that show Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs happy and laughing the day away in China’s Xinjiang region.

 

The reality is that China uses millions of Uyghurs as slave laborers in its cotton fields and factories.

 

Facebook employees have expressed concern that their employer is just another cog in the Chinese disinformation machine that has hidden the human rights atrocities of the Communists — including genocide — by lying about conditions Uyghurs have to live in.

 

Wall Street Journal:

 

Facebook hasn’t determined whether to act on the concerns, say people familiar with the matter. The company is watching how international organizations such as the United Nations respond to the situation in Xinjiang, one of the people said. The U.N. this week called on firms conducting Xinjiang-linked business to undertake “meaningful human rights due diligence” on their operations.

 

A Facebook spokesman said that the ads taken out by Beijing pertaining to Xinjiang don’t violate current policies so long as the advertisers follow Facebook’s rules when purchasing them. He said the company is monitoring reports of the situation in Xinjiang “to help inform our approach and due diligence on this issue.”

 

There are very good reasons Facebook doesn’t want to rock the boat with China. Five billion reasons.

 

Although Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009, its revenue from advertisers in the country may exceed $5 billion a year, according to some research-firm analysts who study digital advertising. That would make it the company’s largest revenue source after the U.S. Facebook doesn’t break out revenue by country.

 

Taking action against state-controlled media outlets on Facebook presents a quandary for the company, some of those analysts say. The ads may contain content that Facebook staff are uncomfortable with, but introducing policies to tackle them would amount to deciding what governments are allowed to broadcast on the platform.

 

Hitler would have loved Facebook.

 

This is not a question of posting the views of the Chinese government on trade, or geo-political issues, or on celebrations of the Chinese New Year, or any other sovereign national issue. There is truth. And there are lies. And if Facebook can’t tell the difference between “opinion” or “propaganda,” it should cease accepting ads from all governments everywhere.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/04/02/facebook-is-a-tool-of-chinese-propaganda-and-workers-are-objecting-n1436982