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Star of David

CNN's Israel bias has been laid bare. But CNN is the norm, not the exception

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:29 UTC
snowCNN
© AFPThe CNN logo is seen as snow falls outside the fifth Republican presidential primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 10, 2024.
Western media can never truly report the extent of Israel's criminality because to do so would be to expose their long-running complicity in those crimes.

Leaks from within CNN reveal that for months its executives have been actively imposing an editorial line designed to reinforce Israel's framing of events in Gaza, to the point of obscuring atrocities by the Israeli military.

The dictates, say insiders, have resulted in senior staff refusing to accept assignments to the region "because they do not believe they will be free to tell the whole story". Others suspect they are being kept away by editors who fear they will fight the restrictions.

Internal memos insist that stories be approved by the station's Jerusalem bureau, where staff are widely seen as partisans who slant reports in Israel's favour. Palestinian perspectives are tightly restricted.

"Ultimately, CNN's coverage of the Israel-Gaza war amounts to journalistic malpractice," one staffer told an investigation by the Guardian newspaper.

Comment: See also by Jonathan Cook:
The message of Israel's torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians

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Vader

New Caledonia crisis reveals France as increasingly aggressive neocolonial power

Uriel Araujo
BRICS
Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00 UTC
macron
© ReutersFrench President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Noumea, Caledonia
On Tuesday, Paris lifted a state of emergency it had declared two weeks ago in its overseas territory of New Caledonia. France, however, is maintaining a night curfew and is also reportedly sending another 480 paramilitary gendarmes, in a development that is not getting that much press coverage internationally. Restrictions are being eased on the main pro-independence FLNKS party. This was a response to about two weeks of unrest and riots, with food shortages and millions of dollars' worth of damage. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron flew to the archipelago in an attempt to diminish the turmoil, much to no avail.

The Melanesia archipelago of Nouvelle-Calédonie or New Caledonia (native pro-independence groups prefer to call it Kanaky), located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, about 1,200 east of Australia, is part of the so-called Overseas France or France ultramarine (France d'outre-mer), which is a generic term for about 13 French territories outside of Metropolitan France (and outside of Europe). Those are basically the remains of the French colonial empire, which remained part of France after decolonization, in different ways and under various statuses.

Comment: See also: New Caledonia prepares to vote on independence from France

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Quenelle - Golden

Russian warships, including nuclear-powered submarine, to visit Cuba next week


CTV News
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:11 UTC
Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov
© Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via APRussian frigate Admiral Gorshkov pictured in this 2023 file photo.
Four Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing "historically friendly relations" between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Cuba's foreign ministry said in a news release that the ships will be in Havana on June 12-17, noting that none of them will carry any nuclear weapons and assuring their presence "does not represent a threat to the region."

The announcement came a day after U.S. officials said that Washington had been tracking Russian warships and aircraft that were expected to arrive in the Caribbean for a military exercise. They said the exercise would be part of a broader Russian response to the U.S. support for Ukraine.

Comment: In one way it's not entirely out of the ordinary, because even before the SMO military vehicles would visit Cuba,. But that's not to discount the possibility that Russia will also be using the visit to send a message:

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Red Flag

Time to Jettison the Animals

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:50 UTC
biden senile
Joe Biden has long lost the plot
"The old left had intellectual commitments that were false in interesting and theoretically stimulating ways. The new left demands adherence to lurid absurdities so preposterous that merely entertaining them induces nauseating neurological disorders." — Xenocosmography on "X"
The most astounding part of America's "Joe Biden" three-plus-years thrill ride is that the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes was able to pretend until just a few days ago that this political phantasm could run for re-election. Now, regime insiders are forced to confess that they can't hide it anymore. They spilled the beans as "unnamed sources" this week in a huge Wall Street Journal article. The president is going necrotic in full view of the whole world. His mind is gone. He looks ridiculous when he shuffles in front of the cameras. He utters obvious absurdities and lies. His wife has to lead him around like a dog on a leash. Everyone can see it. He's got to go. ASAP.

The embarrassing ineptitude has been on view since the 2020 campaign, yet his handlers managed to flimflam half the country ever since, thanks to a news media captured by intel blob gaslighters and to half the country's susceptibility to mass formation psychosis — fear driven thought disorder — that gave cover to treasonous actors seeking to save their asses even if they had to wreck the USA doing it. Who were these actors? The Clintons and the coterie around them, steeped in financial crime and sex trafficking; the Obama coterie of anti-white racists and bungling Marxists; the batshit-crazy Woke race-and-gender hustlers working to derange the merit-based social order (and get paid for doing it); the congressional grifters living off Pharma and Pentagon loot; the agency top bureaucrats who became a corrupt praetorian guard for all the above players, now desperate to evade accountability.
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Bad Guys

Joe Biden's fingerprints are all over the prosecutions of Trump

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:57 UTC
joe biden smirk
© Official White House Photo by Adam SchultzPresident Joe Biden at a March 24,2024 press conference
In response to Americans' outcry over the political prosecutions of Donald Trump and a Manhattan jury convicting the former president on 34 felony counts, President Joe Biden declared, "It's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don't like the verdict." Coming from the Commander-in-Rigging, this proclamation means nothing.

Biden and those seeking to ensure his re-election have their hands all over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of the former president. A lead prosecutor for Bragg during the trial was Matthew Colangelo. In December 2022, Colangelo left the Biden Department of Justice to "jump start" the criminal case against Trump. Biden had previously named Colangelo his acting associate attorney general — the third-highest-ranking official in the DOJ.
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Jet3

France to give fighter jets to Ukraine - Macron


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:55 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
© AFP / Daniel ColeEmmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 'D-Day' landings in Normandy, France, June 6, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will supply Kiev with Mirage 2000 fighter jets and train Ukrainian pilots on the jets. However, Macron did not specify how many planes would be provided, or when they would arrive.

"Tomorrow we will launch a new cooperation and announce the transfer of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to Ukraine, made by French manufacturer Dassault, and train their Ukrainian pilots in France," Macron told France's TF1 broadcaster on Thursday.

Alongside US-made F-16 fighters, Kiev has long requested Mirage 2000 warplanes. In a post on social media in January, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force said that these jets - roughly comparable to the F-16 but considered more maneuverable - could "increase the combat potential" of Ukraine's Soviet-era fleet.

France has around 26 Mirage 2000-5 and 65 older Mirage 2000-D aircraft in active service, according to Flight International's World Air Forces rankings. It is unclear whether Macron intends to spare any of the French Air Force's active duty fleet, or whether out-of-service jets will be recommissioned for Kiev.

Comment: Whatever France decides to give, it'll be too little. Whenever France decides to give them, it'll be too late.

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Syringe

Neil Oliver: '...a storm is coming!'

Neil Oliver
YouTube
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:46 UTC
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
'...a chill wind is blowing across the west as the truth start coming out...'


Comment: See also: Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths

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Sherlock

Biden claims he knew Putin in 1980s


RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:39 UTC
Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin
© Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via Getty ImagesUS and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin shake hands during their Geneva summit in June 2021.
US President Joe Biden has made another apparent gaffe while trying to disparage Vladimir Putin.

In an ABC News interview on Thursday in Normandy, France, where he was attending a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day Biden claimed he has known the Russian leader for more than four decades and has been concerned about him all that time because he's "not a decent man."

Asked about President Putin, he said, "I've known him for 40 years. He's concerned me for 40 years. He's not a decent man. He's a dictator, and he's struggling to make sure he holds his country together while still keeping this assault going [in Ukraine]."

The comment drew ridicule online, as observers pointed out that Putin was an undercover Soviet KGB agent in Leningrad in the early 1980s. He turned 30 in 1982 and worked in East Germany during the latter half of the decade. He didn't become an internationally known public figure until 1999, after his surprise appointment as acting prime minister.
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Bad Guys

No talk of peace at Zelensky's 'peace conference' - Germany


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:30 UTC
Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Zelensky
© AFP / John MacDougallOlaf Scholz (R) shakes hands with Vladimir Zelensky during a visit by the latter to Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not traveling to Vladimir Zelensky's so-called 'peace conference' to initiate peace talks, but to rally as many countries as possible to the Ukrainian leader's side, he told parliament on Thursday.

In a speech focusing on security issues, Scholz told lawmakers that "there will be no peace negotiations" at the summit, which is due to take place in Switzerland next weekend.

"We are still a long way from that," Scholz continued, adding that he intends to use the conference "to engage countries around the world in order to make it clear to Moscow: We stand by international law and the Charter of the United Nations."

Zelensky invited more than 160 delegations to the Swiss conference, with Russia not receiving an invitation. While dozens of Western leaders and diplomats will attend - including Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden will skip the event, with the White House announcing this week that Vice President Kamala Harris will attend in his stead.

Beijing has snubbed the gathering entirely, with the Chinese Foreign Ministry explaining on Monday that any peace conference aimed at ending the Ukraine conflict must involve the equal participation of Moscow and Kiev, and the consideration of multiple peace plans.

Comment: Yet another pointless "peace" conference to add to the long list if ineffectual irrelevances.

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Handcuffs

EU mulls expanding digital surveillance over every citizen - media


RT
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:07 UTC
Apps
© Global Look Press / dpa / Jens BuettnerFILE PHOTO.
The EU Commission is allegedly considering a major expansion of surveillance practices in the bloc that could potentially affect every single EU citizen, German news website t-online reported on Tuesday, citing confidential draft recommendations it had seen.

A 28-page document, reportedly drawn up by a group of experts on behalf of Brussels, lists a total of 42 suggestions of possible tighter surveillance measures in what the media outlet described as "unprecedented privacy limitation."

The paper, titled: "Recommendations from the High-Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement" demands app developers create "backdoors" for the law enforcement agencies to get to any content they need.

The investigators should be able to circumvent end-to-end encryption in messenger services like WhatsApp or Telegram using some sort of a "general key" provided by the developers, t-online reported. Companies that would fail to meet such demands should face penalties, the document reportedly states.

Comment:

1) A key term in this article is Surveillance, below are links to articles using the Supersearch:
Surveillance
Search: Surveillance
Title: 688 articles
Summary: 3792 articles
Text: 9126 articles
Comment: 903 articles
Title and summary: 530 articles
Title, summary, and text: 398 articles,

Some examples:
We the targeted: How the government weaponizes surveillance to silence its critics (2023)
Oliver Stone interview: Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden is about control - not counterterrorism (VIDEO) (2016)
Decades before Snowden, an American patriot waged war against illegal surveillance in the US (2023)
'Beacon for despots everywhere': Britain's fascist surveillance bill becomes law (2016)

2) Expanding the requirements for digital surveillance within the EU, could assist for a legal way block Chinese TikTok without doing it directly, as well as Telegram.

See also:
EU could regulate Telegram - Bloomberg
France censors Telegram channels on the day Ukraine does a bloodbath in Belgorod
French MPs adopt bill on 'foreign interference'... written by French intelligence services
Neil Oliver: We face surveillance of our lives and attempts to control our every behaviour

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