The Twitterfiles revealed that the Feds were spying on the innocent and manipulating the news.
a lot of this is similar to what was discovered by Senator Church and other Democrats who investigated such abuses back in 1975, but now I guess it's okay because.... TRUMP... or maybe RACISM.../s
But unlike the sixties, now the censors are actually silencing opposition voices, not just in the press but with arrests and threats of losing their job a la the Black list of the McCarthy era. How bad is it in the US and the UK? It's hard to tell from 12000 miles away, but it does give one nostalgia for the days when leftists protested for freedom of speech...
Nor is this limited to universities and businesses: Heck, even Father Pavone was fired for his mean tweets aka blasphemy.
why is this important? Because the Catholic press has kept liberty and opposition to tyranny alive in many countries, and now by canceling a pro life priest for actually pointing out that Trump protects life, and the Democratic candidates were pushing abortion up to and even after birth, were not.
But naming names and getting into politics is a no no for catholic priests.
And punishing Father Pavone is a shot across the bow warning the US bishops not to openly oppose pro death politicians except in the most obscure way that gently hints that dismembering a partly delivered baby might not be something that Jesus might do.
Harsh language and criticizing those above you is a no-no in the church: Even Mother Angelica got into trouble when she named a certain Cardinal for pushing heresy. He was powerful and a hero to the US press corps (so his coverup of pedophiles was ignored), but she apoligized and the pope stopped her removal.
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Much of the news reads like psyops/fake news.
Yes,and not just in the USA, although this hasn't gotten a lot of publicity in the US Msm,...that a the Omidyar network CIA front subsidized Rappler, in order to stop Duterte and his drug war. Killing drug pushers is a no no, but you know, several of our neighbors were killed in home invasion robberies by druggies looking for money. Now it is so safe that Ruby even feels safe coming home from Manila on a bus.
So what does this have to do with the Ukraine?
The Omidyar network was the money that helped destroy the pro Russian president of the Ukraine in the Orange revolution. and replaced him with a very very corrupt president whose bribes to US politicians via family members were only noticed if you listen to Alex Jones or leftie places like the UKGuardian.
The war in the Ukraine is a disaster, on many levels, not just for locals, but for the poor in the Middle East who rely on their grain and the world who need fertilizer to grow high yield crops.
So why not try to get peace?
Place leftist right wing criticism of the military industrial complex that is making lots of money.
Sheesh. It's back to the sixties again.
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and by the way: I was not anti war back then, and I recognize that Russian aggression must be stopped, or else it will send a green light to China to invade Taiwan as they did Hong Kong.
And such a takeover, along with their artificial islands (gifted to them by Obama when he pressured PNoy not to stop them when they started building them) means China can block a major maritime route to Korea/Japan/ Eastern Siberia etc.
Japan knows this, and there is a big debate about spending money to enhance their military.
In the meanwhile, China is more aggressively attacking Philippine fishermen and Coast guard off the coast, while destroying the ecosystem and overfishing/decimating the valuable fishing resources.
INQUIRER.net mga 2 (na) linggo na ang nakalipas LOOK: Dozens of Chinese vessels believed to be operated by militia have been monitored in Sabina Shoal and Iroquois Reef in the West Philippine Sea in recent months, according to a ranking military official. Both features are much closer to Palawan than Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef, where the Philippine government has repeatedly protested the presence of massive Chinese militia fleet since 2021.
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| CONCERNS ON SECURITY’ File photo from 2021 shows Chinese vessels anchored around 320 kilometers west of Palawan. Manila continues to protest Beijing’s presence in the country’s exclusive economic zone. —AFP Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1707120/palace-mum-on-chinese-vessels-swarming-ph-waters#ixzz7o3pXrA8x |
A suspicious pattern was discovered involving over 800 Chinese trawlers that were scouring the waters within 36 kilometers of the Argentinian EEZ and fishing grounds that contained one of the largest concentrations of shortfin squid in the world. ...This was a minor bonanza for Chinese trawlers but for Argentinian fishing boats these rare squid were worth over half a billion dollars a year. Offshore fishing is big business in Argentina and represents 3.5 percent of GDP.
the last time I looked, Argentina is not within any area that was claimed by China, and no, it was never an area fished by traditional Chinese fishermen.
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Update (DEC 24_)
Strategy page has an essay relating the Chinese aggression against the Philippines which agrees with much of what I wrote above.
usually I would post this as a separate post, but I must have upset the powers that be, because my log shows only two views of the blog each day (down from 20 a month ago, and down from 30 plus earlier. Some of thie might be because I didn't post when I was sick, but isn't it strange the drop came two days after I posted non PC stuff about covid on the blog?
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