A decision made with no explanation or due process by @YouTube @novaramedia is regulated by Impress and we take our responsibilities as journalists very seriously. This outrageous decision must be overturned. #ReinstateNovara https://t.co/XtkR9K5AH1
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) October 26, 2021
Thread by Greenwald.
All credit must go to self-proclaimed freedom-of-speech champion (((Susan Wojcicki))).
"Billionaire Leon Black Is Being Investigated by the Manhattan D.A., Sources Say" (Sherman). "US judge sets deadline for Prince Andrew to answer questions under oath about sexual assault allegations" (Osborne).
Needs another A for Anti-, the AACLU:
"The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich" (Bardi):I read this ACLU brief. This is the first time, at least to my knowledge, that ACLU is explicitly arguing in court that the First Amendment's free speech clause has been interpreted *too broadly* by courts, and are advocating *a more restrictive view* of what free speech means. https://t.co/RKfmDVLGw7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 17, 2021
". . . our society is possibly the most monetarized one that ever existed in history and the people who run our financial system yield immense power. That power, though, makes them attractive targets for another kind of power: the military one. Think of our Internet barons, Bill Gates and his ilk. By getting rid of a few tens of them, the government could cash in at least a trillion dollars in a single sweep. That is an amount of the same order of magnitude as the US military expenses in one year. Could that happen for real?Of course, right now, it is hard to imagine a court that sentences Mark Zuckerberg to be burned at the stake after having confessed under torture of consorting with the devil and other unholy behaviors. Yet, things that happened once in history can always appear again.It will all depend on a balance of factors: power, wealth, control, technology, and more. Something drastic could happen, for instance, if the US government were to find itself in truly dire financial straits. Then, the temptation of using military means to solve the crisis could become strong. After that all is said and done, as president Mao Zedong said, the origin of all political power is the barrel of the gun. Is the recent shutting down of Facebook a signal of a battle being already being fought in the ethereal "Metaverse" regions? Only time will tell."
"MITRE’s own COVID-19 umbrella coalition includes In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Palantir, a scandal-stained private spying firm."
"As detailed in the first installment of this series, tech oligarchs like Bill Gates and global capitalist policy hubs such as the World Economic Forum have advanced digital ID and electronic currency systems across the Global South in order to harvest data and profits from populations that were previously out of reach.
The advent of vaccine passports providing access to employment and public life has become the key vector for accelerating their agenda in the West. As the financial consulting firm, Aite-Novarica, declared this September, digital COVID-19 vaccine passports “expand the case for digital IDs beyond COVID-19 vaccination only, and potentially serve as a digital ID as a more comprehensive, universal source of identity information…”"
"Waiting Upon Structures to Crack" (Crooke). The Empire is now just a series of unforced errors. If anybody in it has any sense at all, it is wiped out by bribery and blackmail.The Dutch wife of colourful former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili has described her shock at his unexpected declaration of love for a top Ukrainian lawmaker before dramatically flying back to his homeland to be arrested and put on trial.https://t.co/uyiqij1QyG
— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) October 7, 2021