Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ How many journalists are capable of doing what Julian Assange did to expose the criminality of the powerful? Not many. How many are both capable and willing? Fewer still. How many of those are now willing after seeing what's being done to Assange? Even fewer. And that's what his persecution is all about.
I remember when both parties started erecting "free speech zones" far removed from their conventions where both the TV cameras and the delegates could remain blissfully undisturbed by the rabble's protests and demands. Exact same thing going on now with the Internet.
Our country has become a grotesque parody for anyone paying attention.
I wish this article could be shouted from every window and rooftop, but we all know it won’t be. MSNBC/NYTimes/CNN and all the other usual suspects in the MSM will not only ignore free speech, they will continue to work tirelessly to eradicate all non-Narrative speech.
However, let’s not despair. Let’s not underestimate the power of truth. Every time Google/Facebook/Twitter deplatforms a truthsayer, some number of those zombified by mass formation psyops awakens. That number may be small, but small numbers can change the world (indeed, as Pearl Buck noted, it’s the only thing that ever has changed the world).
Also—trying to be an optimist again—let’s notice that the MSM is in free fall collapse. More people now watch that titan, Joe Rogan, than all of the most popular U.S. cable news shows combined.
And truth-telling is additive. To Rogan’s audience, add Caitlin, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, CJ Hopkins and a lot more Substackers (and those on similar alternative uncensored platforms like Locals, Discord, etc.), as well as a stable of YouTubers led by Jimmy Dore, and you start to get a formidable multi-national assemblage of free folk who are mad as hell and have the numbers and the gumption to do something about it.
Let’s make no mistake, the rulers fear us. They may not yet be quite on the verge of heading for their bunkers, islands and yachts, but they are laying in extra stores of caviar, Cognac, and bullets, and they are nervously whispering about people like Caitlin in the conference rooms at Davos.
You keep using the word "journalist". While that may be the courtesy title given most MSM and adjacent types, what they are in practice is stenographers to power, filling a role something like that of advertisers or Renaissance courtiers.
For is it not written, that "News is anything anybody wants to suppress; everything else is public relations."?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
One can not have "free speech" without free exercise of the press, to assemble peaceably, and to petition for ""redress: of grievances." Hence free speech is interlinked with freedom to publish and freedom to hear, all without abridgement. None of these "rights" have existed unabridged in the USA genocidal slave state (yes, slavery is still legal) from before the ink dried on the bill of rights till today. I don't think anything will change even after tomorrow, rather the rate of abridgement will grow.
There will be no war between the United States and Russia. It's still common knowledge in the military, though never confirmed of course, that there's an agreement between the Pentagon and the militaries of at least Russia and China that they won't allow things to go that far. There was some evidence of this over a year ago, when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs caught some flak for telling the People's Liberation Army that Trump wouldn't be allowed to do anything...rash.
Apparently the Chinese were concerned. Those back channels of communication do in fact exist.
Just saying this so you won't worry so much. And your comments about journalism in the West, what there is of it, are spot on.
I remember when both parties started erecting "free speech zones" far removed from their conventions where both the TV cameras and the delegates could remain blissfully undisturbed by the rabble's protests and demands. Exact same thing going on now with the Internet.
Our country has become a grotesque parody for anyone paying attention.
I wish this article could be shouted from every window and rooftop, but we all know it won’t be. MSNBC/NYTimes/CNN and all the other usual suspects in the MSM will not only ignore free speech, they will continue to work tirelessly to eradicate all non-Narrative speech.
However, let’s not despair. Let’s not underestimate the power of truth. Every time Google/Facebook/Twitter deplatforms a truthsayer, some number of those zombified by mass formation psyops awakens. That number may be small, but small numbers can change the world (indeed, as Pearl Buck noted, it’s the only thing that ever has changed the world).
Also—trying to be an optimist again—let’s notice that the MSM is in free fall collapse. More people now watch that titan, Joe Rogan, than all of the most popular U.S. cable news shows combined.
And truth-telling is additive. To Rogan’s audience, add Caitlin, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, CJ Hopkins and a lot more Substackers (and those on similar alternative uncensored platforms like Locals, Discord, etc.), as well as a stable of YouTubers led by Jimmy Dore, and you start to get a formidable multi-national assemblage of free folk who are mad as hell and have the numbers and the gumption to do something about it.
Let’s make no mistake, the rulers fear us. They may not yet be quite on the verge of heading for their bunkers, islands and yachts, but they are laying in extra stores of caviar, Cognac, and bullets, and they are nervously whispering about people like Caitlin in the conference rooms at Davos.
You keep using the word "journalist". While that may be the courtesy title given most MSM and adjacent types, what they are in practice is stenographers to power, filling a role something like that of advertisers or Renaissance courtiers.
For is it not written, that "News is anything anybody wants to suppress; everything else is public relations."?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
One can not have "free speech" without free exercise of the press, to assemble peaceably, and to petition for ""redress: of grievances." Hence free speech is interlinked with freedom to publish and freedom to hear, all without abridgement. None of these "rights" have existed unabridged in the USA genocidal slave state (yes, slavery is still legal) from before the ink dried on the bill of rights till today. I don't think anything will change even after tomorrow, rather the rate of abridgement will grow.
I don't think a general strike is a long shot.
There will be no war between the United States and Russia. It's still common knowledge in the military, though never confirmed of course, that there's an agreement between the Pentagon and the militaries of at least Russia and China that they won't allow things to go that far. There was some evidence of this over a year ago, when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs caught some flak for telling the People's Liberation Army that Trump wouldn't be allowed to do anything...rash.
Apparently the Chinese were concerned. Those back channels of communication do in fact exist.
Just saying this so you won't worry so much. And your comments about journalism in the West, what there is of it, are spot on.
that explains why theyre censoring ALL anti establishment COVIDIOT info...