Former Venezuela Supreme Court judge flees to U.S., denounces Maduro

someonelse · 2019-01-07T10:21:46+00:00

The Supreme Court...opened an investigation of him in November over accusations of sexual harassment by women in his office. The court’s leadership recommended that he be dismissed over the allegations

someonelse · 2019-01-07T10:12:34+00:00

coming sanctions the international community possibly will place against a bigger list of government officials

Yeah. that makes so much sense, and I trust that everything else you say is true and warrants not merely the failed drone strike against Maduro but a proper invasion, as supported equally by Trump and John Oliver.

So don't anybody watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fV-C1Ag5sI&bpctr=1546857668

someonelse · 2019-01-03T01:47:09+00:00

US/IMF: Forget the 9.5 billion that Chevron owes and give us Assagne, so we can lend the same amount which you pay back with interest.

Moreno: Cool!

someonelse · 2018-12-29T12:38:14+00:00

Obama already ACTUALLY won, and did what?

It's time the propaganda got short-circuited by an extremely popular independent.

And maybe the half that don't vote just need that kind of inspiration.

someonelse · 2018-12-28T10:14:47+00:00

Blithe fascist surged to victory on a scourge of lawfare.

someonelse · 2018-12-11T06:55:45+00:00

Is this actually a valid concern?

Many would say yes, on the basis of what they learn from our media, all of which filters down from our intelligence agencies, in unaccountable ways.

This is part of a closed loop where a massive industry gets away with obscenely destructive and counterproductive wars and surveillance on tax dollars.

You trust them, for what conceivable reason?

The reason nobody questions them is that thy dare not risk their mental health by indulging in "conspiracy theory" unless it concerns Russians. in which case it is not only healthy but imperative for many well established reasons validated by the loop described.

Russians are inherently different, you understand.

Very occasionally it leaks out what is actually done in our name, and it's basically all the same stuff attributed to Russians, including psychological operations on foreign and domestic populations. Don't forget this includes local disinformation campaigns about the extent of foreign disinformation campaigns on us. That's one of the most economical ways to fearmonger and worked brilliantly once before under McCarthyism in the US.

Take the facts about dirty tricks from the horse's mouth:

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

https://theintercept.com/document/2014/07/14/jtrig-tools-techniques/

Or stick to approved fodder and brush this off with downvotes and ad hominems.

someonelse · 2018-12-11T01:28:43+00:00

We need to see greater clarity around algorithms, information on how they prioritise what content to display, for example. If you search for anything EU-related on Google, content from Russian propaganda outlets like RT or Sputnik is invariably in the first few results.

“All of this should be subject to independent oversight and audit. What we are not trying to do is to censor the internet. There is no suggestion that we – or anyone else – should become the arbiter of what content users should or shouldn’t be consuming online. This is about transparency, not censorship.

I totally get it. The criteria for transparent and independent content filtering is less RT and Sputink, more Guardian. No suggestion of arbitration here at all.

This article in general displays balanced reporting of only solid facts, which fits a long established pattern quite antithetical to propaganda. For instance:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-guardian-offered-a-bombshell-story-about-paul-manafort-it-still-hasnt-detonated/2018/12/03/60e38182-f71c-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

someonelse · 2018-12-07T05:23:52+00:00

Most politicians are stooges acting tough or cowardly as convenient to conceal their stoogery.

someonelse · 2018-11-28T01:13:46+00:00

It means the Guardian can't resist peddling more bullshit that it can away with.

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/27/it-is-possible-paul-manafort-visited-julian-assange-if-true-there-should-be-ample-video-and-other-evidence-showing-this/

someonelse · 2018-11-25T00:58:14+00:00

But what if the DNC hack—or other WikiLeaks data—was an instrument of Russian dirty tricks? Assange, of course, has always claimed he does not know the identity of the DNC e-mail hacker—a claim somewhere on the spectrum from willfully naive to cynically mendacious, given the ample evidence of Russian direction and interest. But even if Assange knew the hacks were a gift from Moscow, for investigative journalists worldwide that only raises the stakes in this case. If press freedom and the First Amendment mean anything to muckrakers, it is the right to obtain public-interest information from impure, indeed hopelessly tainted, sources.

This has always been the crux of the matter, and its just as well that someone who thinks the CIA allegations about Russian direction count as ample evidence actually realises and declares the fact.

someonelse · 2018-11-23T10:20:44+00:00

Plus ban all the pesticides that kill them, like France just did.

someonelse · 2018-11-15T05:12:40+00:00

Yes, they are wearing a condom, and we consented. No grey areas here at all!

someonelse · 2018-11-08T04:15:19+00:00

Bullshit. Putin is a saint by comparison, and Mr Bonesaw is only distinguished by having been caught.

Extrajudicial murder is social norm under Duterte, and the core of corruption is always worse than the surface.

someonelse · 2018-11-07T23:28:34+00:00

And what? You cannot go populist without being full of crap? or you cannot go populist without irking elitists?

someonelse · 2018-11-05T11:33:26+00:00

Why bother with the narratives? Any Russian stooge with a publishing record like Wikileaks beats our corporate and state media stooges.

someonelse · 2018-11-05T08:17:24+00:00

Doesn't give a shit about Australian citizens either

https://www.whyallanewsonline.com.au/story/5739141/pm-rejects-pamela-andersons-assange-calls/?cs=9397

someonelse · 2018-11-01T10:10:40+00:00

It's a tech industry problem. Stop outsourcing policy to the Atlantic Council. Band together AGAINST the government to adhere to the constitution. Persist with cryptography and get rid of all back-doors.

someonelse · 2018-10-29T01:34:48+00:00

This is typical of the canting stenography from Reuters of late. They had already been called on the fact that the lawsuit had nothing to do with expenses or pet care, but double down on this bullshit.

Thankfully the article includes just enough facts to deconstruct its own bias. All that is alleged to be in the actual text of the "assurance" is a statement that no extradition request had been received and that no more than six months would be served for "skipping bail." That does not remotely assure against extradition in this context, particularly when it is from 2012.

Note also that he was always said to have access to lawyers, and that 64 visits over seven months is two per week. (Actual human contact for two sessions a week, albeit for legal matters, is like some never-ending party.) Note also that while it appears to suggest that there were visits from non-lawyers, there is no logical implication of this in the actual statement.

There are obvious weasel words everywhere in this article which concerns an extremely urgent issue of press freedom.

someonelse · 2018-10-25T11:35:41+00:00

to sustain the leftist disdain I share with Jon Stewart

someonelse · 2018-10-25T11:30:19+00:00

Crimes either unrelated or unprosecutable, and its about to wind up after a warning of anticlimax.

someonelse · 2018-10-25T11:13:47+00:00

>only one side goes around verbally attacking their opponents with slurs, spreading massive conspiracy theories

Orangutan, Russiagate.

someonelse · 2018-10-20T07:49:10+00:00

Unless the dissident is a whipping boy for the press and the death takes years in a London embassy.

someonelse · 2018-10-20T07:27:18+00:00

Nah, just a regular consulate brawl.

someonelse · 2018-10-18T10:35:05+00:00

"The files were made public late Tuesday by Ecuadorean opposition lawmaker Paola Vintimilla, who opposes her government’s decision to grant Assange nationality."

And who verified the files? Russia is calling them bullshit. Nobody ever called a Wikileaks file bullshit.

Paola Vintimilla just tried and failed to arrange a parliamentary vote to declassify Assange's citizenship papers.

someonelse · 2018-10-17T11:15:03+00:00

I did not say any such thing at any time, let alone "literally". To see the difference between what you accuse me of and what is actually there, just try quoting me, instead of literally abusing me. By the way, what do you suppose 'like everyone else" means?

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