What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
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Category: Social Media
Personal post: 04-30-2024
I’ve uploaded a few video clips to my Rumble. Otherwise, I haven’t been doing many. This following video I found on Reddit.
Earlier today, I finished listening to Capital, Vol. 1. I’m definitely going to have to read the book, as I did fall asleep during a couple of chapters. Bad me, I know. It’s been hard for me to listen to audiobooks, anymore, because I’ve been falling asleep to a YouTube playlist for the past few years.
Anyway, I’m tired, and I am going to take a cat nap. Good night!
China vs. the US: shipbuilding, subsidies, and the Jones Act
Hypocrisy thrives where double standards prevail.
Earlier, I stupidly tweeted out an article about the Jones Act and shipbuilding and Colin Grabow, from the Cato Institute, liked it (he was quoted in the article). I looked him up and decided to listen to this video on the shipbuilding competition between China and the US, where he and a lawyer for United Steelworkers were on the panel. China is eating their lunch, and it’s the ruling elites’ own fault, yet they scapegoat China for it. The double standards over China’s “unfair economic practices” AKA the subsidizing of their shipbuilding industry irritates me (liars irritate me even more). States give subsidies, grants, and tax breaks to corporations, all the time. Fincantieri Marinette Marine is just one example, but Wisconsin had done the same for Foxconn. Foxconn received tax breaks and $3B in subsidies, which was “the largest ever subsidy provided by a state to a foreign company”, despite not living up to their promises.
Colin Grabow wants to end the Jones Act. I’ve made at least three video clips regarding the Jones Act, two with Sal Mercogliano from What’s Going On With Shipping and one from the government-funded CSIS (I’ve posted them, below). Spoiler alert: Sal says that the problem isn’t the Jones Act. Meanwhile, both CSIS and the Cato Institute (part of the Atlas Network) blame the Jones Act. Deregulation is a wet dream of big corporations (which fund both the Cato Institute and CSIS).
Read More »Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel
America last. America last. That’s all this is. America last, every single day. – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America’s “wasteful” foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea of issuing loans instead of dispersing the standard welfare handout. It was also Trump who said:
Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel
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Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor
Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank.
Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor
I guess that YouTube made my decision for me
YouTube removed one of my videos for ‘misinformation’. They didn’t tell me what the ‘misinformation’ was, though. 🤷🏼♀️
The most annoying part about it, is not being able to use my playlists! I add videos to a playlist so that I can multitask while listening to them. Now, I have to listen to any new videos, one by one. At least I have over 200 videos in my current playlist to listen to, uninterrupted. 😹
Brazilian lawyer exposes deceit at heart of “Twitter Files Brazil”
An interview with Estela Aranha, who forced Michael Shellenberger to apologize after exposing his manipulation of data to build a false narrative about “totalitarian” Brazil
By Brian Mier
On April 3, Michael Shellenberger tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives dubbed, “Twitter Files Brazil”, which alleged to expose crimes by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, he claimed, had pressed criminal charges against Twitter Brasil’s lawyer for its refusal to turn over personal information on political enemies. Elon Musk quickly shared the tweets and they viralized and were embraced by the international far right, to the joy of former President Bolsonaro and his supporters. A week later, Estela Aranha, former Secretary of Digital Rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry, revealed rot at the heart of Shellenberger’s narrative. The only criminal charge filed against Twitter Brazil referenced in the leaked emails was made by the São Paulo District Attorney’s Office, after the company refused to turn over personal data on a leader of Brazil’s largest cocaine trafficking organization, the PCC. Shellenberger had cut the section of an email about a São Paulo criminal investigation and mixed it with communications complaining about Moraes on unrelated issues. Pressed by Brazilian reporters, Shellenberger wrote, “I regret my my mistake and apologize for it. I don’t have evidence that Moraes threatened to file criminal charges against Twitter’s Brazilian lawyer.”
Brazilian lawyer exposes deceit at heart of “Twitter Files”
US Government Sought Telegram Backdoor for Surveillance: Founder
Pavel Durov, founder of the social media platform Telegram, revealed in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson that the US government had sought a backdoor to potentially spy on its users.
US Government Sought Telegram Backdoor for Surveillance: Founder
Measure seeking sale or closure of TikTok passes with House foreign aid bill
April 20 (UPI) — A potential U.S. ban of the popular social media video app TikTok inched closer to reality Saturday after the House passed the legislation tucked within a long-sought foreign aid package.
Measure seeking sale or closure of TikTok passes with House foreign aid bill
PH: Bongbong Marcos among Time’s 100 most influential people of 2024
PBBM among Time’s 100 most influential people of 2024
“Bongbong has stood steadfast against Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea and bolstered his nation’s alliance with the US in the face of rising tensions in the region and the world,” read a portion of Marcos’ profile in the 2024 Time 100 issue.
“Many problems persist, including extrajudicial killings and journalists routinely attacked. But by trying to repair his family name, Bongbong may reshape his country too,” it added.
President Marcos is listed in the Leaders category, along with Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny; Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk; Taiwan President-elect Willian Lai; Argentina President Javier Milei; Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Adbulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani; World Bank Group President Ajay Banga; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni; and Chinese Premier Li Qiang; among others.
Hyperlinks added by me.
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Time 100: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
Pulse Asia: Marcos approval down 13 points, Sara’s by 7
Marcos’ approval rating went down from 68 in December 2023 to 55 in March 2024.
His trust rating went down from 73 in December 2023 to 57 in March 2024.
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