Tag: Matt Taibbi

Patrick J. McShay, Joe Biden: America’s Puppet Dictator

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Patrick J. McShay “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech” — Benjamin Franklin – Founding Father, Statesman, Author, and Diplomat “Take away the highfalutin talk about countering hate and reducing harm and anti-disinformation is just a bluntly elitist gatekeeping exercise” — Matt Taibbi – Best Selling Author and Investigative Journalist “Liberty as we all know cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control over everybody and…

Caden Pearson, Elon Musk Unveils Twitter Censorship Machine in 2020

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By Caden Pearson 0:007:25 1    Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday unveiled what drove former Twitter executives to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Dubbed “The Twitter Files,” Taibbi published his reporting in a thread on his Twitter account, which he said was based on “thousands of internal documents obtained by sources” from the social media platform. The tweets contained communications amongst Twitter employees as they grappled with how to excuse their decision to censor the Hunter…

Paul Craig Roberts, The Suppression of Free Speech Has Close to Majority Support in America

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Paul Craig Roberts Almost every minute of every day I see overwhelming evidence of America’s collapse as a free country.  Elon Musk conducted a poll on whether Twitter should allow President Trump to use the social media platform. Fifteen million people responded.  51.8% of the respondents said “yes,” but almost an equal number 48.2% said “no.”  In other words, almost half of the 15 million social media users who responded to the poll oppose free speech for a former president of the United States. No doubt, being as indoctrinated as they are,…

Matt Taibbi, To Rebound and Win, Bernie Sanders Needs to Leave His Comfort Zone

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MATT TAIBBI  Current and former staffers say Sanders has run a great campaign — except when it comes to taking on Democrats like Joe Biden by name. Can he fix that? A former aide to Bernie Sanders tells a story about the old days, when the little-known House Independent used to crisscross Vermont holding town hall meetings. “It was morning to night, and we’d hit every corner of the state,” the aide recalls. “They would go on and on. I’d say to him, ‘Bernie, it’s okay if we leave a little bit…

Matt Taibbi, Why Is Christopher Steele Still a Thing?

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MATT TAIBBI  From The Guardian this Monday, November 4: Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself… The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele… Christopher Steele became famous in the United States as the author of a “dossier” that claimed Russians had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Donald Trump “for at least 5…

Matt Taibbi, Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided – and Broken – News Media

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By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone America received two almost completely different versions of the story of al-Baghdadi’s pursuit and suicide. If you have two sets of news media, you have none wo sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48 The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses” remains in the lead paragraph. Meanwhile, the headline on Foxnews.com: Al-Baghdadi kill:…

Matt Taibbi Trounces Intellectual Mainstream: “Everyone’s a Russian Asset?”

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Matt Taibbi America laughed at Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Tulsi Gabbard, but her ideas fit perfectly in the intellectual mainstream Hillary Clinton, not long ago the nominee of the Democratic Party, had some choice words about the state of American politics Friday. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said on a podcast with former Barack Obama aide David Plouffe. “She’s the favorite of the Russians.” Clinton appeared…