[Peace-discuss] Interesting viewing
J.B. Nicholson
jbn at forestfield.org
Fri Aug 18 04:57:45 UTC 2023
The Duran: John Bolton escalation. Removing Imran Khan w/ Jeffrey Sachs (Live)
https://rumble.com/v383cws-john-bolton-escalation.-removing-imran-khan-w-jeffrey-sachs-live.html
My take: Good views on Imran Khan's regime change ousting (and giving credit where
credit is due, The Intercept did good work here). This means the Biden administration
is now sabre rattling with three nuclear powers: Russia (by proxy via Ukraine),
China, and Pakistan. Soon to come: more agitation of Russia via Africa in backing
ECOWAS intervention in Niger which (as of yesterday) the US government's official
stance won't rule out.
The Duran: Denying liberty, eroding democracy with Thierry Baudet, John Laughland and
Alexander Mercouris
https://rumble.com/v37d6wy-denying-liberty-eroding-democracy-with-thierry-baudet-john-laughland-and-al.html
Tucker Carlson's "Tucker on Twitter" show
https://rumble.com/c/TuckeronTwitter
My take: Tucker Carlson is still getting massive viewership online. If being a
"mainstream" show comes down to popularity, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson's shows are
mainstream and TV is dying.
RFK Jr.: https://rumble.com/v387pu9-rfk-jr.-roundtable-on-censorship.html
https://rumble.com/v387pu9-rfk-jr.-roundtable-on-censorship.html
My take: In case you haven't been keeping up with recent movements in censorship and
the fight to prevent the US government from telling publishers (most notably Twitter,
Google, Facebook, and the like) whose work to censor, hide in search results,
shadowban, or otherwise obscure. Most recently, Scott Ritter's channel was kicked off
of YouTube (read his own words about this in
https://www.rt.com/news/581415-scott-ritter-youtube-ban/ ) and Glenn Greenwald
covered the new Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino, pushing the latest
ill-defined-on-purpose "lawful not awful" publishing in
https://rumble.com/v38k5vc-system-update-132.html . Sadly, it looks like constantly
suing the US government is the only way to get it to stop doing unconstitutional
things (no surprise here, really).
This is why it's worth passing around rumble.com URLs instead of YouTube. Rumble has
a history of going up against state-sponsored calls for censorship such as when
France told Rumble to stop carrying RT and other Russian outlets Rumble reacted by
continuing to carry those channels and telling France that they'd rather give up the
French market than comply with censorship. France blocked Rumble and we get one more
place to pick up the news that we're not supposed to see or hear.
Relatedly: Wikipedia's willing co-optation by the permanent government/deep state is
gaining more coverage (Greenwald covered it recently, for example). On any topic that
the US government, powerful people, or powerful industry considers relevant you can
safely assume that Wikipedia articles are propagandized. Very little in the article
is safe from this (perhaps the current logo for commercial operations might be truthful).
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