Anonymous ID: 72bebf March 9, 2023, 7:30 p.m. No.18477591   🗄️.is 🔗kun

9 Mar, 2023 21:00

Twitter Files expose ‘censorship-industrial complex’ – journalist

Matt Taibbi presented the US Congress with evidence of corporate, NGO and government collusion

 

Social media platforms colluded with non-governmental organizations and the US government to suppress information they did not like in the name of fighting “disinformation,”journalist Matt Taibbi testified at a congressional hearing on Thursday.

 

Taibbi appeared alongside Michael Shellenberger, another journalist who has covered the “Twitter Files” for the past several months, before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, led by Congressman Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio.

 

Taibbi described what he called the “censorship-industrial complex,” calling it “a bureaucracy willing to sacrifice factual truth in service of broader narrative objectives,” and the exact opposite of a free press envisioned in the US Constitution.

 

Right before his testimony, Taibbi also published a lengthy thread on Twitter, laying out the evidence he entered into the congressional record.

 

According to Taibbi, Twitter acted “more like a partner” to the government, censoring based on requests it received from federal agencies as well as taxpayer-backed NGOs. Intelligence agencies, dubious “disinformation researchers” and corporate executives effectively worked as a team, he argued.

 

Taibbi’s thread described an “incestuous self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back,” with the same agencies inviting the same “experts” funded by the same foundations and covered by the same reporters to every panel and every conference.

 

He identified the key players in the censorship-industrial complex as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab, and the Alliance for Securing Democracy, authors of the infamous Hamilton 68 dashboard. Many of the NGOs involved received funding from the US government, while legacy media outlets acted as their proxies, demanding censorship.

 

Taibbi described the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and its “Election Integrity Partnership” – renamed the Virality Project after the 2020 election – as “perhaps the ultimate example of the absolute fusion of state, corporate, and civil society organizations.” By its own admission, it labeled 22 million tweets during the 2020 election campaign, and was then given access to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, which is able to tackle 50 million tweets a day.

 

SIO is run by Renee DiResta, who helped design Hamilton68 and worked at New Knowledge – a group caught creating fake “Russian bots” to help Democrats in the 2017 Alabama special election for the US Senate. That did not stop them from advising the Senate Intelligence Committee on “Russian interference” in US elections, and the US legacy media from not questioning any of their conclusions.

 

“Packaged as a bulwark against lies and falsehood, [the CIC] is itself often a major source of disinformation, with American taxpayers funding their own estrangement from reality,” Taibbi wrote. “Without real oversight mechanisms, there is nothing to prevent these super-empowered information vanguards from bending the truth for their own ends.”

 

During the hearing, multiple Democrats tried to pressure Taibbi into revealing his sources, insinuating Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, was behind the disclosures.

 

“I’m not his source, but, yeah, obviously asking journalists to reveal sources is not cool,” Musk tweeted on Thursday afternoon, in response to the hearing.

 

(It’s seriously hysterical the sheer panic of democrats because they know they have violated the law with social media and helped fund the NGOs, they actually want the rat that betrayed them. It will never happen and their house of cards will come down upon them. Wait to the full details come out on the extra judicial lengths they went to defeat Trump)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572719-twitter-files-hearing-congress/

Anonymous ID: 72bebf March 9, 2023, 7:36 p.m. No.18477617   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7620

9 Mar, 2023 20:20

Biden proposes largest military budget in history (money laundering 10% for the big guy)The spending hike is aimed at countering China and overhauling America’s nukes (Trump already did this, he announced it multiple times)

 

US President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget would increase military spending to a record $842 billion, according to information released by the White House on Thursday. The US already spends more on its military than the next nine nations combined.

 

According to a White House statement, the budget will include a $9.1 billion investment in the Pentagon’s Pacific Deterrence Initiative, which is aimed at bolstering the US’ presence in the Pacific region as a counter to China. Modernization of the US’ nuclear arsenal will add another $37.7 billion to the budget, while an unknown amount will be spent on shipbuilding and investments in “key technologies.”

 

A separate statement from the White House mentions that Biden’s budget will include $6 billion for Ukraine, although it is unclear which government department this will come from. The statement on military expenditure only makes a vague reference to continuing “support for Ukraine.”

 

While no further details were released to the public, the total cost will add up to $842 billion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. This represents an increase of $26 billion over last year, and nearly $100 billion over 2021.

 

It is unclear what areas of the military have been highlighted for spending cuts. The budget will also likely be rewritten several times in the coming months, as it needs the support of the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican-held House of Representatives to become law.

 

Neither side has signaled that they oppose the military spending hike, although House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised to trim $130 billion from the entire federal budget in a bid to reduce the US’ $31 trillion national debt.

 

The US spent more on its military in 2021 than the next nine nations combined, according to the most recent figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The US’ 2022 military budget is counted as 2021 expenditure by the institute.

 

The institute noted that despite the military’s budget increasing every year since 2015 and more than doubling since 2002, successive US administrations have cut funding for arms procurement by 6.4% between 2012 and 2021, and 5.4% between 2020 and 2021. The consequences of this can be seen in recent reports highlighting how the US effort to arm Ukraine has left stockpiles depleted at home.

 

(Americans say, Fuck this shit, they have last at least $5 Trillion in the last 15 years. No more for Pentagon, until they retrieve the lost money.)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572720-biden-military-budget-2024/

Anonymous ID: 72bebf March 9, 2023, 7:57 p.m. No.18477703   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7727

John Fredericks blasts Ken Cuccinelli: "The guy's a backstabbing, ungrateful grifter."

 

He’s a cockaroach. The most vicious Never Trumper. He stabs republicans in the back, and he is now supporting DiSantis. He coordinated the attack on Carson with Cruz. John is pissed and exposes Cucinelli. He will always try to defeat Trump, even though Trump gave him a job in the administration. He opposes and wants to destroy Trump Supporters.

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v29u1sk/?pub=4

 

Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli II (/ˈkuːtʃɪˈnɛli/ KOO-chi-NEL-ee; born July 30, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as theSenior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2019 to 2021.

 

A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the Principal Deputy and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director ofU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.

Anonymous ID: 72bebf March 9, 2023, 8:17 p.m. No.18477765   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Cuccinelli created a PAC for DeSantis, but Cuccinelli’s face is all over the PAC.

 

He basically betrayed Trump when he gave him two positions in his Admin!

 

Why, if DeSantis hasn’t even announced does this guy start a PAC for him?

 

Their addiction to PAC money will be their downfall!

 

Boris Epshteyn on Cuccinelli:"He was a sad loserthen and he's gonna be a sad loser now."

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v29u6t6/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: 72bebf March 9, 2023, 9:13 p.m. No.18477980   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7988

Speaker McCarthy Vows Full Public Releaseof Capitol’s January 6 Surveillance Tapes, Matt Boyle from Breitbart

 

It’s not 14,000 but 42,000 hours, everyone should see it not just Tucker Carlson

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v29ufd0/?pub=4